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Friday 29 January 2010
Monday 25 January 2010
The weekend
Right to update you all. My new hard drive was install over the weekend. It took a while as my PC was custom built it had no driver disks so they all had to be located. The motherboard, graphics card - everything. This took about a day to locate, burn disks of and reinstall them on my new PC. (i also have copies of these disks should my hard drive die again) Then i had to re install all my software. I did this leaving Maya until last as i know it has some problem, and it did.
For some reason when setting up the new new hard drive it had renamed itself H: instead of C:, which really is no immediate problem to your PC unless your using a C: for the licence code. The only thing is you cannot just rename your drive, it would mean formatting the hard drive again and reinstalling the whole thing, this time with no drivers but the hard drive and CD connected, then the drive would become C: which i wasnt prepared to do. So i had to go into control panel - administrative tools - computer management to bring up a screen that allows me to rename the letter of other drives. I needed H: to be a C: so i renamed the flash drive port that was currently a C: to an L: meaning that C: would now be free on the list. I then renamed my external hard drive from G: to C:. This all meant that if i moved the licence file onto the 'C:' drive (external hard drive) it could locate it properly and allow Maya to start. I know you're probably thinking why didn't i just programme it to search 'H:' to save all the hassle, but i couldn't, even if i tried to script it in the run menu as the C: drive search was embedded in the crack file.
This was all finally completed last night at 3am.
I took my pc to my friend john in dartford friday night after uni and stayed until midnight troubleshooting whether it was a virus, hardware fail or what until we dicovered it was the harddrive. (We connected a different drive and it tried to boot.) So then before work saturday i had to buy a new harddrive and take this up to dartford when john could start to build it into my pc. I then had work until midnight after which i went back up to dartford to collect my pc. Sunday before work i put most of my software on but had to leave beofre finishing and after work when i came home was when i was talking vis messenger tring to sort out maya, which brings me to now and today. No further than i was friday afternoon. With tonnes to do and a dissertation to work on. Oh, and the premiere file i had built my final animation in was on the harddrive and not the external so i have to restart that again.
For some reason when setting up the new new hard drive it had renamed itself H: instead of C:, which really is no immediate problem to your PC unless your using a C: for the licence code. The only thing is you cannot just rename your drive, it would mean formatting the hard drive again and reinstalling the whole thing, this time with no drivers but the hard drive and CD connected, then the drive would become C: which i wasnt prepared to do. So i had to go into control panel - administrative tools - computer management to bring up a screen that allows me to rename the letter of other drives. I needed H: to be a C: so i renamed the flash drive port that was currently a C: to an L: meaning that C: would now be free on the list. I then renamed my external hard drive from G: to C:. This all meant that if i moved the licence file onto the 'C:' drive (external hard drive) it could locate it properly and allow Maya to start. I know you're probably thinking why didn't i just programme it to search 'H:' to save all the hassle, but i couldn't, even if i tried to script it in the run menu as the C: drive search was embedded in the crack file.
This was all finally completed last night at 3am.
I took my pc to my friend john in dartford friday night after uni and stayed until midnight troubleshooting whether it was a virus, hardware fail or what until we dicovered it was the harddrive. (We connected a different drive and it tried to boot.) So then before work saturday i had to buy a new harddrive and take this up to dartford when john could start to build it into my pc. I then had work until midnight after which i went back up to dartford to collect my pc. Sunday before work i put most of my software on but had to leave beofre finishing and after work when i came home was when i was talking vis messenger tring to sort out maya, which brings me to now and today. No further than i was friday afternoon. With tonnes to do and a dissertation to work on. Oh, and the premiere file i had built my final animation in was on the harddrive and not the external so i have to restart that again.
Friday 22 January 2010
R.I.P Harddrive
After its intensive 3 hour operation unfortunately he didn't pull through.
To the shops tomorrow to buy a shiny new one(thank god for the student loan), then back to techy friend to put it in.
Then to work 4pm - midnight.
Argh this was not in my schedule... catch up Sunday before work i guess!
BAD news
I am currently still at uni but a phone call from my mum has just let me know that my PC has blue screened and shut itself down and will not restart.
I have no idea why. The only thing i left open on it today before i left to get here was premiere, Maya was closed and i wasn't rendering anything. I'm hoping that when i get home today my PC has not died as i will be in big trouble.
I have a friend who is an I.T technician and i am in contact with him now arranging a possible meet tonight if necessary to revive my system.
Everything is backed up and saved so data loss is not a problem its just i will have no where to work on anything. I am not happy.
I cannot believe this.
I have no idea why. The only thing i left open on it today before i left to get here was premiere, Maya was closed and i wasn't rendering anything. I'm hoping that when i get home today my PC has not died as i will be in big trouble.
I have a friend who is an I.T technician and i am in contact with him now arranging a possible meet tonight if necessary to revive my system.
Everything is backed up and saved so data loss is not a problem its just i will have no where to work on anything. I am not happy.
I cannot believe this.
Final update for the weekend
After starting to piece my rendered shots together i realised i had managed to read a number '5' as a number '2' not once but twice meaning I'm missing around 4oo ish frames so i have come in today to collect the remaining few frames.
On my home computer the final edit is almost complete and i will post as soon as the final frames are in and i have added the sound but i unfortunately i have no Internet at my home at the moment so i will be getting someone else to post for me... the boyfriend.
My surrogate blogger wont finish work until 10.30pm this evening so my post will be after 11pm most probably but online for commenting on over the weekend.
Although i have an extension until the 29th i really would like to hand this in, or have completed working on it by the Wednesday (27th) as i really need to focus on my dissertation, so im allowing myself a maximum of (including the weekend) 5 more days. Of course if i manage to finish before then EVEN BETTER!
I don't want to neglect my essay and its starting to play on my mind quite a bit.
On my home computer the final edit is almost complete and i will post as soon as the final frames are in and i have added the sound but i unfortunately i have no Internet at my home at the moment so i will be getting someone else to post for me... the boyfriend.
My surrogate blogger wont finish work until 10.30pm this evening so my post will be after 11pm most probably but online for commenting on over the weekend.
Although i have an extension until the 29th i really would like to hand this in, or have completed working on it by the Wednesday (27th) as i really need to focus on my dissertation, so im allowing myself a maximum of (including the weekend) 5 more days. Of course if i manage to finish before then EVEN BETTER!
I don't want to neglect my essay and its starting to play on my mind quite a bit.
Wednesday 20 January 2010
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