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mackillian
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I think it is.

Recovery disk my ass.

So...Nathan somehow managed to kill my gateway (he insists it was broken when he started to use it). Suuuure. It was fine before he touched it.

Anyrate. He tells me that when he looked at the screen, it said something about corrupted antivirus files. He rebooted. Then it wouldn't boot back into windows...just vertical hashmarks across the bottom and then a message (after it did some hard thinking) about missing kernel DLLs.

Hmm.

Okay, so I found my recovery disk six days later.

Instructions are to insert disk, restart computer, follow on screen instructions.

I have a blank screen.

I wonder if these mysterious instructions are written in invisible computer ink.
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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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Maybe you should soak the computer in lemon juice.

edit: Or um... seeing as how I've googled invisible ink now and what I remember is wrong... Maybe you should iron the computer.

[ August 26, 2004, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ]
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I definitely used lemon juice [Smile]

Poor computer [Frown]
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PSI Teleport
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Yeah, lemon juice IS the invisible ink. It doesn't reveal it.
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mackillian
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Oh! I got it working (the disk).
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*suddenly feels like an idiot*

Why didn't you stab me on Monday and tell me to send those CD's to you!?
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mackillian
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I forgot. But it's okay, I found the blue disk!

(the disk that gateway refused to replace and told me instead to go buy a new XP)
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you know, my laptop bluescreenofdeathed me shorty after he left. i wonder if it's something to do with his personal magnetism.
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Nah. He's a Computer Virus Mary.
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Don't blame me for your faulty hardware. And celia, if it happened to be me that got you that blue screen, you deserve it for those sock puppets.

[ August 26, 2004, 09:59 PM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]
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mackillian
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It was the hard drive. It's dead. *kicks it*

Had to order a new one, but installing it is easy on this model. Yeay for that [Smile]
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