WTF Were the last couple of days?!?! I’ll tell you…
I’m going to run down the last week or so and all the fun I’ve been having. We all know about the accidental throwing away of the lock on my backpack and cutting it open, then cutting the lock off, so I’ll spare that. I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned the absolutely delicious food I’ve been eating, but technically I just did so there. Then, all of a sudden, it happened. I wanted to intsall a secondary OS on my laptop for kicks but I didn’t have any discs to burn it on. After doing some research, I found I CAN install an OS without having a disc, granted I already have one or two OS’s installed first, which I do.
First, I grab some VMWare to test one theory, fail. I rebooted to get into the other OS and, wouldn’t you know it, the damn loader for both OS’s flipped out and lost BOTH Operating Systems. No command prompt, no special key combination to hit to get to a command prompt. So I give up and go to bed for the night. The next day we get up and hit the not-so-mean streets of Berlin and find the one computer repair shop everyone pointed us to, which also happens to be an internet cafe and a place to buy international calling cards. Upon arrival, it also happens to be a liquor store. But that’s not all.
The computer technician that works there doesn’t get there until eight in the evening, at this point it wasn’t even eleven. We weren’t waiting around all day for this dude to show up that might not even have a Windows disk. All I needed was a Windows disk and this whole thing could’ve been avoided. Anyway, not only do the people working there not speak English, they don’t even speak German, but they were nice so it’s all good. We walk out and head back to…somewhere, I think at this point we were aimlessly walking around contemplating asking anyone who looked like a hacker (yes, you can spot them)if they had a Windows disk.
On our trek around Berlin, we just happened to notice a computer shop. But it’s not really a shop, it’s more like a tiny Office Depot that sells printers. Because we had no other choice, we walked in and asked where a computer repair shop was, the gentlemen said yes (implying we were standing in one). Then I asked for a Windows XP disc and he went and brought one out. I was relieved, until I kept receiving the BSoD every time Windows tried to load the intsall program (ALL I WANTED WAS A DAMN COMMAND PROMPT AND I COULDN’T GET TO THE REPAIR CONSOLE). After a couple of reboots, I asked if he had a Windows 7 disck. Out it came.
I FINALLY got into the command prompt in the repair options of Windows 7, unfortunately it was the German version and I know enough to say thank you. Fortunately, pretty much all pictures and installs are the same the world over and I noticed the picture (and parts of the words) for repair startup. It scanned my hard drive and THEN I noticed what happened. Somehow, some way, something changed my OS drive letter from C to E. Hitting repair fixed that in a hurry and now I’m back in command of a working laptop. Now it’s time to start the day by getting some lunch as that took most of the morning to get this thing up and running. Totally worth it. PIECE!!!!!
