<strong>Your Name: </strong>Allan Zhang<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/11/19

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T F

<strong>Total hours for week: 7</strong>

<strong>The School: Reavis</strong>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Inventorying, General Tech Help

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>On Tuesday I did a variety of things. First, I was unable to get the flash drives working, as any data recovery operation I tried to use only got fragments of files, and I couldn't access the partition itself through any conventional means to try to repair the disk/data, and unconventional methods usually end up destroying the disk or something. I passed those along to Mr. Johnson. I got a request from Mrs. Green to look at her laptop (which was a huge 15.6" Toshiba laptop that looked like it was on a 17" chassis or something). Unfortunately she was out for most of the day, so I couldn't talk to her, but I saw the problem that when I booted it up, it basically couldn't get to the desktop. I assumed that it was one of the Services/Startups that was giving the computer vast amounts of trouble, so I disabled all of them by going into Safe Mode, and slowly reactivated them until I found the problem. The event checker said that tons of processes failed to start up, but I was able to reactivate a lot of services on start up and still get a rather reasonable boot up time. I didn't see any other problems with the laptop other than that it was moving at 1 mph and had something like a 800x600 desktop resolution (on a 15.6" screen?!), but I didn't want to mess anything up without Mrs. Green's position, so I just left it.

Afterwards I went to visit more classrooms to see the general tech situation. I checked up on the two classrooms whose computers I fixed last Friday, and those computers seemed to be holding up well. Otherwise it was rather miscellaneous work, setting up printers here and there, inventorying the computers, and such. Some computers had Windows 2000 set up on them, so I'll need to get a Windows XP install disk and fix that. These same computers didn't have any wireless cards or adapters, so they couldn't get onto the internet. The only other things to note are that Ms. Lazich in Room 114 is getting a new computer and will require my assistance on Friday to set it up, and that Ms. Johnson and Mr. McCaughey want to record some presentations by their students, so I installed Audacity on their computers and showed them how to use it.

The work on Friday mainly focused on getting the Hard Drives actually into the laptops. This basically took all day since the screws are small, short, and hard to work with in general. But in the end all of the laptops got hard drives into them and they were all assembled correctly, though we had a ton of HDDs left over after installing them into all of the laptops.