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My friend Adam rules the world

Ok, here's how I broke my computer. I had previously disabled one of my hard drives, and I went to reenable it, and my computer froze. Upon rebooting, "Invalid system disk". I could have sworn I right clicked on the correct drive and cliked "enable", but I suppose it's possible I clicked on the wrong drive and clicked "disable". Actually, I just checked and it's not even possible to disable your main drive, which would make sense. So my computer just freaked on me for an unknown reason.

I called my smart friend Adam, who works in IT for Intel, and the first thing he recommended was to unplug my second hard drive, and if that didn't work try using the "repair" option on the installation CD. I opened my computer up, disconnected the power on my second drive, turned my computer on, and it worked. So Adam's a genius. That's something I never would have thought of.

Then I was able to turn the computer off, plug back in the second drive, boot, and enable it and it's working fine. Woo.

Thanks Adam!

Oops, had to reboot one more time for the drive to show up in "My Computer".

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