My file server at home is hosed. I've had a big 'ol Compaq system that's acted as an application and file server running everything for my household: Photo Albums, Music, Video, Web Galleries, FTP, Torrent, etc and it's not booting. Normally I re-load my systems every year or so to clean them up, but this one is going on two years just because of it's shear complexity.
Today I couldn't boot it. It died last time I started it up, but I booted into the recovery console, rebuild the MBR and boot sector, and it seemed to start up fine. Not this time. I couldn't get it to start up to save it's life, no matter what tricks I tried.
I ended up using Bart's Preinstalled Environment, which uses your XP CD to build out a CD bootable installation of XP that lets you start up your system, mount your drives, map your network drives and recover any data you need. I thought I just had a bunch of bad sectors on the drive, and hopefully after fixing them, I could get this machine up and going. Doesn't look like it'll be that easy.
I really need to re-load it, but it's just too much of a pain and I don't have the time at this point. As my Grandpa used to say, "If you don't have the time to do a job right the first time, when will you have time to do the job right the second time?"
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