I made a little slip-up a few days ago. Ok, it wasn't small; it's been making everyone go crazy for the longest. Here's what happened (short story version): I dropped our Lenovo. There. At first I was pretty freaked out because, duh, I dropped the laptop, so we quickly turned it on, and guess what? It worked (apparently)! After a while of using it though, my Dad saw that there was something seriously amiss. The computer was freezing when we brought up any substantial program, and it was crashing in the strangest of ways. I saw some error messages that day that I don't even think Bill Gates is aware of. Windows 7 became almost completely corrupt, and we decided to turn off the computer until we could fix it, when I got an idea. A while ago, I had downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 onto a jump drive, cause I thought that the OS was pretty cool. Well UBUNTU SAVED OUR LIVES. Not because it's better than Windows or anything, but because since it was on a jump drive and not on the master HDD, it wasn't affected by our crazy broken Lenovo. It scanned the main drive and found out that it was scratched. When I dropped it, the needle must have hit the surface of the disk too hard or something, and parts of the drive are now bad sectors. Right now I'm righting this post in Ubuntu, and we're planning on copying all of our files from the corrupt drive to a new drive, then putting our OSs back on the corrupt drive. By then though, we would have gotten the corrupt sectors out of the way of the rest of the HDD, so it will become usable again. Sorry, I forgot not everyone likes computers as much as I do; I don't think many people reading will be very interested in listen to me talk about how I just got a C++ IDE. Which is cool anyway.
Signing off,
The Traveler
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