Woe, woe is me, for my computer suffered a fatal death, the hal.dll file more or less said "You know I can't do that Dave" and packed up. It coudl just be corrupted, or it coudl be that my hard drive is dead.
My test will be to get an Ubuntu cd running and boot into that, if I can see my hard drive, I can try copying a new hal.dll file into place, if not it will mean its dead, gone my large selection of fictional military logos.
Still, 2 things I can take from this.
1. Back up everything regularly
2. Have an Ubuntu CD on standby for this sort of thing.
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16 years ago
Its amazing how often I've killed my PC and still failed to learn the "back everything up regularly" lesson.
ReplyDeleteUbuntu (other distros are available, I've just not used them in this context, but I'm sure they're just as good) live CDs are so handy for helping to diagnose if its dead hardware, or just some corruption. Even if you're a non-Linux person, there's a lot to be said for having one for just this sort of emergency.
The GUI tools are good enough these days for basic things (eg if the hard disc doesn't automatically turn up in the file browser, its dead to some degree), so there's no real need to be worried about having to learn terminal commands.
Basically if I can't fix it in a drag and drop way I'm handing it to a professional. But I reckon the Ubuntu CD will eb a great diagnostic tool.
ReplyDeleteYup, that's basically why I recommended it. Some of its system tools are incredibly handy as well. I ended up using one to fix some dodgy partitioning on a PC a while back.
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