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August 1, 2010
Another Drive Crash...
My laptop crashed today. Went out to dinner and booted it up to load my photos onto and the laptop wouldn't boot up. I got the Blue Screen of Death and "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". Sucks.
I dunno what to attribute this to...static electricity...bad luck...who can tell?
It sucks because I had all of my photos on there from Rocky Mountain National Park, Mount Evans...you name it. I'd not copied them onto my RAID server yet, so I've probably lost all of the originals, which sucks, of course.
I dug around and found a couple of 3 1/2 laptop hard drives. I actually had a problem with this drive before when I was in Mississippi last year. It was acting squirrely then, so I ordered a replacement drive and had the new drive sort of half-way working when I went on my trip across Mexico. However, for whatever reason, the C: drive showed up as the E: drive, which caused too many problems to go into. And after I left MS, the old drive started working again, so I just swapped them back around one night in Mexico and that was that.
So, now that the drive appears to have crashed (again), I guess I'm sort of back to the drawing board.
I inserted an XP3 install disk and went into the recovery console. Did a "chkdsk c: /p /r" command. It's running something.
Hmmm...it ran for about an hour or so. Then, it said it was complete and had fixed some errors. I notice that my c: drive is almost completely full. I reboot it normally (not safe mode) and voila! It works. :) Thank the Lord I didn't lose all of my photos from Mount Evans and Rocky Mountain National Park. That would have sucked in a major way.
Update: I think that what happened was that I wrote so much data onto the c: drive that it crashed. When I checked, it said 86.5 Gig was used and there was only 647MB free.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 1, 2010 at 8:38 PM
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