Yes, the blue screen of death! It also happened on my treo, although it was easy to revive my treo. I'm frustrated because this is time consuming and not to mention stressful. I have backups of data. I only lost a few things that I can reconstruct. One piece of advice I didn't listen to was to use Norton Ghost to create a mirror of the system when it has been cleanly installed. My RAID set up seems to fall apart every 9 months ... so this time I'm going to eat my own dogfood and make a mirror of the system.
This stress makes me grumpy and is the primary reason why after 25 years of being a pc user, I'm finally going to switch to a MAC. Also, the video editing tools are better (although I'm hoping that Camtasia will work on dual boot =) I'm also going to embrace web-based productivity apps ....
Light blogging in beth's world is, of course, hyper-productive mega-blogging for most fo the rest of us.
Enjoy changing platforms.
Posted by: Nick Booth | June 02, 2007 at 05:58 AM
Hey Beth... I just made the switch a couple of months ago. I like my MacBook Pro, although I don't think it's quite the life-changing experience some people make it out to be. I've even had to reboot and "force quit" some programs. (gasp!=) But all in all, it's pretty nice, and getting better as I learn nifty little tricks. If you have any questions or get stuck trying to do something, let me know. Maybe I've figured out the same issue recently.
And Nick's right ... you've posted more than most people since the blue screen first popped up!
Posted by: David | June 02, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Thank you Nick and David for the kind words of support! I was blogging on my laptop while waiting for the desktop drives to reformat.
I have 6 more months left on my desktop before I can switch.
Posted by: Beth Kanter | June 02, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Hi Beth,
Seeing your picture of a disk formatting sent chills up my spine (and not in a good way). Many of us have had the same bad experience at least once in the past. Get well soon...
Posted by: Roger Carr | June 02, 2007 at 04:28 PM
I'm now Zen about it! I'm back up with vital essentials -- I learned about mirror/ghost of a system to save time with the reinstall. And, I'm looking at ways that my bad habits can be improved ...
Just didn't need this to happen now during my busy time.
Thanks for your good wishes
Beth
Posted by: Beth | June 02, 2007 at 05:12 PM