went to SP yesterday to do self-certification for my laptop. we reached there at 8:30am as my dad brought me, zhihao and guanyu to SP. we waited for the self-certification program to start at 9am outside the room@T4. while waiting, we ate peanuts which guanyu brought.
at 9am, we went into the room and started the self-certification. while in progress, there were A LOT and A LOT OF PROBLEMs, especially with these Aspire 5920G series (or Acer laptops).
the installation of windows xp requires me to remove my splitted partition which is the DATA drive. i have lots of files (maybe, about 9GB) in there and have to back it up. luckily guanyu brought his external HDD if not all of that 9GB would be gone. the backup took like 30mins. zhihao and guanyu already started the installation while i was still backing up files.
ok first set of problem is that the ACRONIS IMAGE recovery was a pain. we have to swap between disc 1 and disc 2 of the windows xp disc 12 TIMES to be able to get the recovery(installation) started. once started and it reached about 65% of the installation, all 3 of us got the same problem and which is saying that the disc 1 of the windows xp disc is corrupted. we switched the disc with the supervisor for like 3 - 4 times before we eventually got a working disc. sick!
in the end, the installation continued and guanyu's windows xp was able to boot while mine and zhihao's aint able to. the people(or students) around tried many crappy stuffs and it's all those which i really hate to deal with and that is partitioning of hard disk. they used the GPart Linux partition editor and all sorts of program that is unknown to me. i felt the ache in my heart.
suddenly a pro came and told us that the acer laptops with the Arcade Deluxe is the problem, he removed the partition which was hidden as the Arcade OS and then reinstalled windows xp. the windows xp was able to boot after that. wow. before that he also dealed with the file system using WINDOWS 98 TOOLs. everything was okay once he came BUT one problem occured. it's not really a problem but it's a rather irritating message on my laptop.
the message states that: "Warning: unrecognized partitional table for drive 80. Please rebuiled it using a Microsoft-compatible FDISK tool. (err=8)." hell.. this message appeared for like 10 times in the boot loader (GRUB4DOS). looked for solutions for about 5hours and to no avail. SIGH.
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after that we went to guanyu's house which peiwen and darren joined in too. darren wanted sims 2 and some other games while peiwen too wants the same thing. and also, guanyu showed me Assassin's Creed and also the global conquest of Kane's Wrath.
we went to his house just to play, fix, install. lol.
