It’s been a bad week on the computers this week and I have wasted hours sorting them out.
The biggest problem was the Windows XP Parallels partition which is running the weather station software. For some reason, it became corrupted and all I got was the blue screen of death.
I managed to get the weather station running again by using a 24 hour old snapshot, meaning that I lost a whole day’s data. However, when I re-booted Windows, it crashed again and I was back where I started.
After scouring the internet, I found that the best easy to fix it was to boot from the install CD and use Windows Repair. I finally found out how to boot from the CD and after about five hours, I got the system working again.
By changing the date on the Weather Display initialisation file back 24 hours, I was about to download all the missing data and everything returned to normal.
The other major problem I had was that all my Adobe software refused to load after I installed a software update on the Mac Pro. I tried for ages and all I got was the spinning beach ball.
To repair this problem, I had to re-install all of the Adobe stuff – all four dvds of applications. It took another hour or so to update it and as it was getting late, I left it until the following morning to try the software again. Fortunately, everything loaded.
So, with all these problems, and Cheltenham Festival on TV, I have done nothing outside and I need to get on top of that in the next few days. I now have to correct all the niggly little errors with my weather station website which are not serious, but are very annoying.