Crash

Well, my lovely new computer, running a badly-designed Windows 8, is limping along. Right now, there is no Windows on it… I have another operating system installed but it does not boot, thanks to the wonderful AMI BIOS with UEFI. Most of you don’t have a clue what that means, and I’m on the edge of understanding myself.

Windows 8 sucks. You have two desktops, and neither one of them can work independently of the other, so you’re always presented with both unless the computer loads a program quickly enough to not see the second one come up. I liked Windows 7.

So anyhow, I tried to install LinuxMint (Olivia, MATE, 64-bit for the tech geeks out there). After several emails with ASUS to find out how to bot to ANYTHING other than Windows, it installed to my D: drive (sda6, again for the geeks). It did not boot. But Windows was still there on my C: drive any time I wanted to use it, and I could boot to Mint from a live DVD.

I decided to see if Ubuntu would do me better.

Wrong move.

Very wrong move.

I burned the Ubuntu disk and loaded it. I did not like the option it was presenting me, so I tried to exit. I could not. I shut down the computer via the power button.

And now, no Windows. No Mint. No Ubuntu. I thought it had merely wiped my Windows bootloader. But no, examination (again, using the LinuxMint live DVD) proved that Ubuntu TOTALLY WIPED MY ENTIRE HARD DRIVE and formatted it as an ext4 drive (again, geeks only need note).

So, until ASUS can send me a new Windows setup disk, I can only use my computer with the Mint live disk. And all my files were wiped… although most were previously saved at my ASUS cloud drive, so it’s just a temporary loss.

I was planning to spend the weekend editing old articles I had written, to submit them to another journal. I probably could have done that anyway (the articles are also saved at several locations in the cloud) but needed to determine why my computer was not working (said discovery being enumerated above).

Isn’t it odd how the more stressed you are, the more things happen to increase stress? I think the Universe gets the idea that stress is what you LIKE so it gives you MORE.

Hugs,

Me