Yesterday, I fixed a friend's computer whose windows system got completely messed up because of a botched stick of ram.
He was using a netbook without a cd-rom drive, so his installation cd was not useful. However, the installation CD contained all the information I needed to restore the computer.
So, I created a bootable WinPE system on my USB flash drive, and modified one of the boot files to boot directly to norton ghost (a hard drive re-imaging program). However, I still could not get the factory hard drive image file onto his computer since that was still on a cd. The image was 2.1GB. My flash drive was 1GB, and my SD card was 2GB, so those won't work. What do I do now? Not to panic, I deleted a bunch of music off my IPOD, and copied the image there using my laptop cd drive. Then, back on my friend's computer I booted off the modified WinPE from my flash drive and went into Norton Ghost. Norton recognized my iPOD as a hard drive with data on it, so I was able to re-image the hard disk by pulling the ghost image file real-time from my iPOD and on to the netbook's hard drive. The whole thing worked like music. It was beautiful.
I rule.
4 comments:
You rule. Actually, I hope you rule in more than this little kingdom. I'd like to see you become CEO of a powerful corporation, President of the United States, or the Pope.
As the pope you could run for president of the united states while running a big corporation. Why not all 3.
I agree with Paul. But you might want to try making millions first, running your campaign, then spend the rest on the poor so they will elect you pope.
Paul's so smart. He must be related to Joe!
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