It's time for Computer Grouch Rant - everyone's favourite comedy hour! Stand up and cheer, kids! And let's hear it for your host, Angry Raven!
A large video compression that I've been trying to do for the last five days at last reveals the secret of its failure. It's not the compression software, it's not the codecs, no, it's super hard drive damage. More irritating than a malfunctioning software patch, taking longer to repair than a corrupt file allocation table. Oh yes, it's not just a matter of a scandisk - scandisk sucks air through its teeth and says "ooh, it'll cost ya, mate". It's not just a matter of reformatting - format says "it's more than my job's worth". Not even repartitioning can save it - fdisk claims "we'll have to call in a specialist". No, this is a job for the almighty low level format, feared by sane computer people the world over. It's recommended that you remove all other hard drives before doing a low level format, but do I? Do I? No more than I make a backup before attacking the registry with the double-edged axe that is regedit. I tempt fate, flashing a bit of leg in the hope that it will give me a ride to the next town. I thumb my nose at fortune, as it passes by in the other direction. Is such behaviour sheer insanity? I expect so. Stay tuned for an update, same bat-time, same bat-channel.
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