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My PC is dead.? Somehow the partition table of the c: drive is corrupted.? The good news is c: only store program executables.? All my data are intact in d: and e: drive, plus all my files are backed up in my linux box.? I am glad that I took the trouble to setup the backup utilities.? I can still do my daily works using my laptop, which only has minial installation.? Now I face a delimma.? Should I spend my time re-install the old computer or should I simply setup a new machine.? My computer is over 2 years old, almost time to retire.? Anyways, I won’t do anything about it until I finish my exam on wednesday.? It bothers me a bit my main computer is down, but it is not a show stopper.? I can still do 80% of my daily task as usual, except I can’t download BT.? Sigh…? I feel some unfortunate today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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