Seven Red

The Blue Screen of Death saga continues.

In this installment, topspun determines that the motherboard’s failure to recognize the secondary drive must derive from its current status as slave. As such, the primary drive must be completely removed, and the jumpers for the secondary set to master. This turns out to be a correct diagnosis of the problem (after numerous failed diagnoses, a la House), so our hero swaps out the failed primary HD for the backup, runs his recovery program, and recovers all his data. He also determines that, because it was merely the failure of the primary HD, the entire machine is still in good working order, and needs only a fresh IDE drive to be up and running once again. The old bastard lives yet, friends. All’s for the best, in this best of all possible worlds.

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