I haven't slept much last night, which means I'll probably feel like shit as the day progresses. To be honest, this has been going on since the new work schedule was introduced where we go from graveyard shifts to sunset, instead of from graveyard back to sunrise. I just can't seem to adapt to the gentle change in sleeping patterns, whereas with the hard change (night to morningshifts) I only suffered for a day or two every 21 days or so.
Currently I've got trouble sleeping for 3 to four days, every 2 weeks. If this keeps up, and I can indeed pinpoint it to the new system (I hope it's not the reason though, since there is little chance it'll be changed) I'm in for serious trouble.
As I couldn't sleep I got up earlyish (8AM) and just hooked up a computer that a colleague brought along last night. It suffered from some kind of error and it was powered down hard (ripping the powercord from it) now leading to a bluescreen with a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error in windows XP. A quick search leads me to believe I should be able to fix it with a chkdisk /p, so let's see what happens and whether or not I can access it at all.
Box analysis : I got the box running again, a chkdisk /p did indeed solve the main problem. After booting into XP Home though, I instantly noticed that it was severely plastered with spy and adware. A first check with Ad-Aware (an up-to-date version) returned no less that 856 hits. Of which 8 were running spyware processes, and I had already killed off some manually. Off to do a cold boot, run another check, then run SpyBot SD over it, hook it up to the net to update on patches and the latest virus definitions and then I'll see how far we get.
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