Don’t know where the boot disk is, so it’s off to the shop. Hopefully they’ll be able to do something with it. Dagnabbit, I’m never going to see this movie, huh?
[UPDATE] …Well, at least it was still not working when I got it into the shop. Turns out that the computer got it into its fool head to look at the CD-ROM drive first in order to boot up anything. And no, I have no idea why it thought that. Neither did my computer guy, who is a living saint when it comes to this sort of thing. If you live in Howard County, MD, the Computer Shop is well worth your patronage.
what are you using for backups?
…My, aren’t the walls vertical? 🙂
a USB hard drive + Veeam free edition = good backups.
Go search for “Veeam Endpoint Free”.
“CD first” is a common default setting because *most* CDs aren’t bootable .. so what you get is an error that, once you take the CD out, goes away .. but if you’re building out a hundred new installs a week, you put the majik CD in, press the button, and wait a few hours..
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That said .. yeah, it’s *supposed to be* turned off before the machine is handed to its’ minder .. because every now and then, some smart-ass sticks a bootable header onto a “music CD” and everything goes to virus-town.
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Mew