I must apologize about this weekend. I had seriously messed up my computer in numerous ways.

First, my computer used to have seven partitions: one for system recovery (1.5 GB), one for Windows Vista (180 GB with all my files), one for Windows 7 (22 GB), two for testing DOS booting (10 GB and 2 GB), one for Ubuntu Linux (10 GB), and one for Ubuntu swap space (virtual memory, 500 MB). I had wanted to delete three of them, the Vista one and the two DOS ones, so I could install more programs on Windows 7 and gain about 30 GB of disk space.

I began by backing up everything; thankfully, it worked after some time. I had to deal with it halting when it ran into protected folders. Then I deleted the two DOS partitions. I did a reboot because it said some changes would take effect afterwards. Bad idea, because GRUB (boot loader for Linux) spat out Error 17 (partition not found) and did absolutely nothing. I had to locate my Ubuntu install disc, which I could not find. Instead, I found SystemRescueCd, which I used to run some commands. By accident, I formatted the Ubuntu partition and wrote the boot code to it. For several hours, I kept messing it up. I texted KingOfKYA for help.

I needed an Ubuntu disc, though, so I downloaded and burned one on our other computer. Upon booting the live CD, I started copying more files to the hard drive (backing up important data on Windows 7--not sure why I didn't do it before). Then, out of nowhere, the kernel crashed. KYA confirmed it was real and wondered how I could crash Linux unless something like the hard drive failed during the copy. (As of this post, I assume the disk froze or the USB cable wiggled a little loose, because some of the copied files failed and were corrupted.) A second copy worked until the strangest error came up. The disk ran out of space? With 550 GB used out of about 960? It made no sense until I researched file count limitations. Nope, I didn't violate that either; I don't have 4 million files on the drive. Odd. Drive works fine now.

Now to move on to fixing up the partitions. Gparted time! I deleted the Vista partition and Linux partition, grew the 7 one (both the extended and the logical it rests on) to the empty space, and created a new Linux one with leftover 30 GB. That took two hours.

Then, I moved on to finding the correct command to delete GRUB entirely and restore the Windows BOOTMGR. Windows 7 sprang to life and I was finally able to get back to what I needed. Now to copy all the files back from the external to the internal. Hey good, no errors! A couple programs didn't work because they were on the external, but I fixed most of them.

And that brings me up to now. I have to re-install Visual Studio 2008, Qt (on both Windows and Linux), and a number of other things.

That was fun!

Now please don't say what commands I should have run because the whole thing annoyed me when I found them out myself.

I barely noticed you were gone, which is strange since the last time you were taking a brake this site was dead.

Sucks lol

Awww Cat, we missed you. We had a little problem that I think you might have already delt with. It was quiet without you on *****, but I had GreenMan to talk to. Then weirdly I fell asleep AGAIN. Don't crash your computer again . Cat you still had more fun than me (except when I was bored and burning things with my magnifying glass ).

Re-installing is the worst part of all :/

So used to hiatuses from people I look into, so I really didn't notice.

Wow, all I did this weekend was work.

All I did this weekend was school work and naked time.

To be honest, I barely noticed your absence, since I was busy with my school work.
But anyways, welcome back.

I didn't notice that, especially that you weren't absent for a long time, but glad to have the owner back!

Ouch, sounds like a real pain in the behind... Oh well, nice to know what happened anyway. I didn't really notice you were gone until you told us on the chat...

Blah, computer troubles are the worst kind of troubles in my opinion. Good to hear you have things in order.

Cat! You should have run the following command; none of this would have happened:

cat ./sanity > /dev/null

We missed you Cat! Good that your computer is fixed!

I thought you were pretending to be offline again. Haha.