Datastreams

Sunday night after finishing up Little Brother I downloaded the image for Ubuntu 8.04. I kinda realized after the fact that I had (or at least thought at the time) no blank CDs to burn it to so did it at work yesterday.

This goes to show how long it’s been since I used a CD and not a DVD. I’ve had this problem a couple of times in the past where the thing was made extra shoddy (maybe on purpose, I dunno). In short, If I can put the disc to the ligth and it’s translucent, it’s NOT going to work. Irritating if you’re burnign a music CD, Very very bad if your installing something you know is goign to take a little bit more technical know how and be messing with stuff you only know in theory at this point.

I always wanted to go mucking about in the master boot record of my drive. :/

All’s well that end’s well though. I’ve fixed my main 80gb drive and it boots fine. The 250gb I borrowed from work still has a hosed mbr but that’s inconsequential for now. I can deal with that now that I am not havign to run up and down two flights of stairs looking for answers and downloading utilities anymore. Also have a permanent bootable copy of Acronis Disc Studio now which wasn’t helpful in correcting the problem, but was damn handy for verifying the probelm. It’s also a pretty sweet app on it’s own. I’ve now got the flash drive it’s on stuffed in my support folder of discs for future use. Also found my copy of ERD commander 2002 and shoved that in their as well. Another cool tool that while not handy in resolving this problem, but pointed me to where I ought to be looking. It’s also great for helpign peopel that forget their windows passwords.

Downloading the image again. I found some blank CDs tucked away on my shelf. I’m considering this a minor setback. As annoying as it was, It WAS more productive then what I had planned for the night.