NOOO!!!! It Can\'t Be!!!

[synth3tk]

I'm so mad right now, it isn't even funny. I was working on the new team's website on my laptop's when I kept getting funny message balloons in the lower right corner of my screen that "this-and-that" file was corrupt and that I should run 'chkdsk'. Well, I scheduled a Check Disk run for all three of my partitions, obviously my C:\ drive had to run after a reboot. After rebooting, I never got to the chkdsk screen, just a black screen. So I let it run about an half-hour, but to no avail. Went into BIOS and ran the built-in hard drive check, it returns OK, so it's not physical damage. Rebooted into Safe Mode, and something strange comes to light: It hangs when it tries to load crcdisk.sys! I'm hoping it isn't true, maybe it's just an isolated incident, so I shut it down, turn it on before bed, and let it run overnight. Nothing. Right now I've got a 10-pound paperweight sitting here. The moral of this story:

DON'T BUY VISTA!!! IT'S A TRAP, LUKE! IT'S A TRAP!!!!


Yeah, on a related note, I can't do the Buckeye Regional, but we can provide scouting as soon as I get a Linux distro up-and-running. I'm working on getting another machine to use for the video, but it's not certain at this point. Now, is it possible to do a stream/encoding under Linux?

I'm fed up with Windows at this point, and truly only stick with them for gaming, truly. The PC I'm building is getting a dual-boot just so I can play Frontlines and use Vegas.