Blue Screen of Death

The year has started out with a bang at the Beazer house. It began with the "Blue Screen of Death" and of course it wasn't properly backed up. First we heard some strange clicking that came and went. Our immediate reaction was to back up and shut down, only this was not what it wanted to do. It locked up promptly, something it likes to do when it's feeling stubborn. Then came the evil blue screen with something about an unmountable boot sector proudly displayed on it.
Luckily we have another computer, which was used to research out what this lovely error message could possibly mean. It didn't look too serious just time consuming. We put a call into our specialist, (after the bishop is barely computer literate and I am only a few grades ahead of him), who walked us through some fairly simple steps. How hard could it be to drop in a CD, click a few keys and sit back and wait, and wait, and wait. Several hours later, the screen said all fixed, just restart. Hah, what a laugh. No such luck. The blue screen presented us with a new message, winsrv can't be found and must be reloaded before it will agree to work. Another call to the specialist, who help us with some good old-fashioned dos commands to hopefully fix the new problem. Again failure, what could this be? This was now serious and it sounds as if it will need a complete overhaul. But what about the important files that weren't properly backed up. With computers side by side, we downloaded software on to the cooperative computer that could possibly breath enough life back into the obstinate one to retrieve the precious data. First attempt failed, of course. Second attempt took a while, but it somewhat worked. It's a good thing our specialist is from the old school, and knows linux commands.
Now we are waiting until the life support team comes up to vacation so we can transport it down to Utah to the specialist, who will do a more thorough check up, run more tests and determine what kind of transplant surgery will be needed. It's very likely that it will come back, after a long recovery period, as good as new, except it will have lost it's long term memory.
Please be patient with the bishop as he has to share computers again.

PS. The specialist just happens to be the bishops brother who is a computer program with a masters in computer science. The only draw back is he lives in Orem, luckily we come and go from that direction often enough it shouldn't take more than a few months.