okay so here's the deal. luckily I have my mac to work on somewhat.
first off, let me preface this with "i do NOT have my startup disk for my dell dimensions 4600 PC"
that said.
once upon a time, there was a fair, naive maiden who went to Best Buy to get a Western Digital MyBook 250GB external hard drive thing to back her files up. She paid about 200 gold dubloons for this piece of equipment.
once she got back to the tower in her castle, she installed this device onto her machine.
keep in mind - over the past week, the Blue Screen of Death Dragon had visited her and threatened her - this is why she went and tried to buy protection and back up her files.
this magic MyBook - touting the ease of installation - never quite got off the ground... and 10 minutes after our heroine hooked it up, again, it was the Blue Screen of Death Dragon who visited her.
Alas, he was not alone.
With the BSoD Dragon was its bastard half-brother, the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Stop Error Troll.
The evil cackling ensued, and the maiden was no longer giggling as she was known to do throughout the land on prior occasions. This time, sobs could be heard throughout the kingdom and on the telephone, as she attempted to call some GeekKnight in shining armour. Unfortunately, the GeekKnight and his squad did not want to help the maiden for under $200 if she brought her parcel to Ye Ol Best Buy where she had purchased the MyBook one hour prior. So, since she just handed over a chunk of cash to Ye Ol' Best Buy she hath no money to buy a Geek to help her.
Ye Yadda Yadda Yadda....
A Knight named Pylorns attempted to help but could not.
Somehow after restarting the machine over 25 times, the maiden was able to run some sort of symptom tree - which is still running.
Hark! There is word of failure:
** IDE Disk - Read Test **
No additinal sense information
Test Results: Fail
Error Code 0F00:0244
Msg: Block 49406037: Uncorrectable data error or medi --------- the message scrolls offscreen and our Maiden cannot read it since the mouse doesn't work during this test.
"IS THERE A KNIGHT - or KNIGHTRESSCHICK - OUT THERE IN THE KINGDOM WHO CAN HELPEST THOU?!?!?!?!? HELP!", screamed our fair, stupid, naive, non-techy maiden from her tower.
remember, our maiden dost not haveth the startup cd because whilst humorous, she is definitely not organized.
please. help. shoot a comment here.
WILL THERE BE A HAPPY ENDING TO THIS TALE???????
*** fair maiden is letting the symptom tree run and is going to the patio bar at the Union Landing so she doesn't sit here crying***
