Formatting PC
Its Saturday, 01 July 2006, 11.00pm (23:00). Since its the first day of the second half of the year, I’ve decided to format my PC, or rather my harddrive cause you can’t really format a PC. There’s no particularly spectacular reason for doing so. It’s more on a whim than anything else.
Perhaps the most outstanding influence to the decision is that my CD-Writer refuses to work properly inspite of my many attempts to remedy it. It has been acting strangely since I swapped out the old motherboard (after that fiasco with my Samsung monitor).
At any rate, my intention is to zero fill the harddisk, repartition it 50:50, pop in Windows XP and hope that nothing breaks down in the process. Granted that I’ve done this hundreds of times both professionally (used to be my bread and butter) and on a private basis, there’s never any guarantees. For all I know, and considering my spate of bad karma as of late, my PC will blow up just shy of completion (most likely at 99.99%).
Hopefully, the exploding PC is nothing like the eploding laptop.
If the headlines of tomorrow’s papers reads Boy Dies In Freak Harddrive Fire, that would be me and you’ll know why I’m silent all a sudden. Anyway, here’s to a peaceful reformat and see you on the flip side.
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WL Said,
July 2, 2006 @ 1:43 am
Coi! Quickly spit saliva and say again!
Simonsays Said,
July 3, 2006 @ 10:35 am
WL: He said “Boy Dies In Freak Harddrive Fire,” not, “Man Dies In Freak Proprietary OS Re-install - emphasis on the Freak Proprietary OS, not the Re-install” (you can tell I love Windows |-D).
gbyeow: Thanks for linking to the eploding laptop article. BTW, I feel sad for all the wasted hours on reformatting for people who have to do it on reasons other than on a whim. I’ve been wanting to run a virtual machine or check out free imaging utilities like g4u, though haven’t found the time yet :P
Simonsays Said,
July 3, 2006 @ 11:03 am
WL:So (sorry forgot 2 reach my point in the previous comment :P), as we all know, gbyeow is not a boy, so there’s nothing to worry about. :) Besides, he finished his reinstall in the next post :)
gbyeow Said,
July 3, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Shhh… I’m trying to project an image of boyish youth.