» Blue Screen Virus
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
You come home to your East Lansing apartment after a long day of classes. Dreading the eight page paper your professor asked you to write without any notice, you go to turn on your computer when you realize one of the most upsetting truths a Michigan State college student can have:
You have a virus.
More specifically, the virus known as the Blue Screen of Death (named after the popular Three Rings of Death X BOX virus). Once you have the Blue Screen, you may not get it again for a while, or it may never let you look at anything else again. For some reason it varies on frequency. Most of the time from my experience this problem is fixable provided you follow these easy steps:
1. Remove your computers hard drive and connect it to a different computer using a universal drive adaptor. Basically, this will make your computer’s hard drive into a USB drive, and you can put any files you still want on to a different computer for the time being.
2. Put your hard drive back in your computer.
3. Re-install whatever operating system you use (Windows Vista, XP, etc). This will serve as your “Do-Over” essentially, bringing your computer back to its original settings.
4. From there, you can take your old files and transfer them to your now working computer via either USB drive, CD, or email. I would recommend a large USB, as the other two hold less data.
I know this won’t solve every problem, but this seems to be a very prevalent virus in the past month. I spent about $35 on the adaptor, which I was thrilled to pay rather than buying a new computer.
-Ryan Shaul
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