I really didn't need this.
We have Medicaid recertification forms to complete. They require financial information. That financial information is in Quicken, which is on whitestar, which runs Windows 2000.
About an hour ago, I flashed a BIOS upgrade on whitestar, rebooted, and ... Win2K wouldn't boot. I've been trying to recover it for the past hour, so far without success. It appears whitestar's disk (which is less than a year old) has suffered an uncorrectible error at a crucial location to Windows, which didn't show up until I rebooted the machine because until I rebooted, it had no reason to try to read that sector. So far, I can't even successfully reformat the disk. It figures this'd happen on the only machine of mine that doesn't run on a mirrored boot disk (and doesn't have the capability to do so).
I have up-to-date backups of all the data, but that doesn't help us right now. I have backup access to my Quicken files through VMware on babylon5 (and the actual Quicken data files are on babylon5 -- whitestar accesses them over the network, because I trust babylon5 and Linux a lot more than I trust whitestar and Windows 2000), but right now VMware's refusing to run for unknown reasons. Possibly it didn't like having its binaries stripped. I'm downloading the latest update as I write this. Hopefully it'll work.
The drive is a Western Digital Caviar WD600. According to their web site, it's still under warranty, and they do advance replacement. I've got an RMA issued, and a new drive should be on the way shortly.
