Lacqui's Log » Windows http://blog.lacqui.com Not just good - Just good enough Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:59:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Attempting Repairs http://blog.lacqui.com/2010/12/attempting-repairs/ http://blog.lacqui.com/2010/12/attempting-repairs/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:25:07 +0000 lacqui http://blog.lacqui.com/?p=559 We have two laptops at our house – one old, one new. The old one decided to die while I was in Halifax with the new one. It is, of course, out of warranty; further, it has been discontinued by the manufacturer. Support documentation, once available on Toshiba’s website, is either removed or hidden so well that I can’t find it.

Unfortunately, the only way I can currently repair it is using my recovery CD.  This CD, however, will not allow me to perform an operating system repair.  No, instead either Toshiba or Microsoft (or both) decided that, should my operating system decide to shit the bed, I need to erase my hard drive and start over.

Yup, not only did my OS die; now I have to erase all my data and start from scratch.

Officially.

Instead, I realized – hey, I’m out of warranty!  Which means I’m going to perform some surgery, extract my hard drive, and back up any important files to the other computer using an external enclosure.  I haven’t decided yet whether I will reinstall Windows on this machine after I have finished, or if I will switch to Ubuntu.  Both directions have their appeals; either way, though, it looks like I’ll be starting from scratch to resurrect this machine this Christmas.

Anyone have suggestions for alternate recovery methods?  I still need to get an enclosure, so I won’t be doing this for a few days yet.

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]]> http://blog.lacqui.com/2010/12/attempting-repairs/feed/ 0 Old game, new computer = FAIL http://blog.lacqui.com/2009/02/old-game-new-computer-fail/ http://blog.lacqui.com/2009/02/old-game-new-computer-fail/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:00:03 +0000 lacqui http://blog.lacqui.com/?p=13 My desktop computer is not working at the moment, so my daughter asked me to install Scholastic Brain Play grade 1-3 (no link available) on my laptop.  When I click on Autorun, I get the following message:

The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.  Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher

Now, I’m not an expert on Windows, but as far as I knew, 32-bit apps were supposed to run on Vista 64 (hence the Program Files (x86) directory)

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