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FML vs PlsKillMe - Every Producer's Worst Nightmare [fail]
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| Kthought |
Observe this knockout hit I took. I have my machine in a pretty decent local hip hop studio. Powerful, clean, non web machine. I engineer the high priority mixes on it, and after business is handled I produce, and usually till the sun comes up. the rest of the time the other engineers use the other pro tools rig to record. So I go in one day last week and my machine is dead. The staff ducks all my calls for days, and after standard experience troubleshooting, I've made no progress in even knowing if my work, my blood sweat and tears, my one true love is salvageable. I could use technical support, and moral support, brothers.
Facts of the matter:
I am pissed
After POST, bios is accessible, windows xp splash screen does not come up, frozen black with no activity. Same when I select safe mode, and last known good configuration.
What's the next troubleshooting step? Of course keep in mind, I would rather swim in a pool of sandpaper before I lose any data.
2x250 hdd RAID 0 array.
Intel board and early model quadcore
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| kitphillips |
Try
1/ booting from another disk, like a CD or something. Trying out a win XP install disk should tell you if its a HD issue.
2/ taking the disk out and trying it in a new computer |
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| sako487 |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Try
1/ booting from another disk, like a CD or something. Trying out a win XP install disk should tell you if its a HD issue.
2/ taking the disk out and trying it in a new computer |
Try these, or install Win 7 and keep all your files when installing it |
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| Kthought |
Thanks, was determined to remain an XP purist, know it inside and out, but if 7 makes itself an option to save my work then hell with it.
My next question would be, is dissassembling the raid array either with a 7 install or latching it to a new board, jeopardizing my data? I seek to remember hearing about them being risky and difficult. But telling me I could run 2 hdd's like a double barrel shotgun was all I needed to hear. |
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