The Awakening

Finally, this blog will see the light. Even though it has remained accessible to the public since I’ve made it, and a few unexpected visitors have seen it (there was someone who had searched from “ntldr” into google… I would never expected that a windows’ error would give me visits), from now on I will begin to spread its existance and to consider it definitely published. You will can see the videos and stories sections are very complete now: Since they are the cornerstone of this blog, then the objective of it is to use it as a warehouse of my creations, now is time to publish it.

In the days that come I must leave apart all this,since partial exams are coming, and I don’t know the program too well… But the coming of what I consider the great new of the blog is not far: The story I promise at the end of Stories section. Now I will say, for those who doesn’t know it, it is a script for a game (supposedly a RPG one) written in spanish because it was born with the intention of participating in a competition of scripts in this language, and translating more than eighty pages is not easy. The story has the title “Proyecto YG” (YG Project), title I designed as a name in key and it has become the greatest option, and its genre is adventure – fantasy – sci-fi. My three favourite genres in one.

Personal note: The next step in the blog is to include a page with my profile. (Its personal, but is interesting for the potential readers of this, I don’t know if they will be many.) After I’ve said this, I say goodbye for today. Tomorrow I will begin to annoy everybody I will see on-line to tell them the blog’s address. If you are one of the victims, thank you for reading this and comment and take a look to the other sections.

PS: I want to thank Rore for the script for GIMP (and for the tutorial that was the script with) because it has let me make so beautiful banner for the blog. Very good script!

PPS: About the last post, I couldn’t save the data… But the hard seems to be safe, after a slow formatting.

NTLDR is missing

Welcome to my new blog. In a perfectly balanced system, the death of an individual might cause the birth of another. In the real world, that’s not fulfilled, but what’s happening me while I’m writing these lines does obey this pattern. A good friend leaves me and is born what I hope will be an useful ally: this blog. In exchange, I fear I’m losing my hard disk.

All began yesterday morning, when I tried to turn on my laptop (for those who doesn’t know me I must say I use it as a desktop computer) and, in the deep silence of the black background, a strident and fateful message in white was telling the bad new: NTLDR is missing. The price for having a pseudo-operative system like Windows? Maybe. In any other running paradigm, this would mean that the file ntldr is missing, a thing that happens to a lot of people in one moment of his life with windows. But in this case that’s not true. Trying to restore the file with the recovery console of XP’s installation cd was completely useless.

And what can we do if windows doesn’t run? It’s obvious, we must go running and crying to daddy Linux. After trials with several live-cd’s, I was able to repair grub with a knoppix. Then I have accessed to my precious debian and I’ve checked out with surprise that windows’ partition is broken. The explorer only reads a lot of erroneous files and folders with extra-alphabetical names (unintelligible ascii characters). Without any rest of hope, I’m repairing the boot sector of the partition with a little program for terminal i’ve found.

After this, even if I can’t save the data, the partition, and the dignity, I will reinstall windows. The reason: I need it for some concrete things. I can’t do much for it, because free software can’t equal the private one in variety and quality. Another time the capitalism. But let me advise you before I close the post: If you can avoid to depend of windows, avoid it.