Bryan Duff
Ray
Week 10
Tech general: 8 hours

I wasn't able to stop by and help out with the Spanish project this week.  There were a lot of minor tech issues to work with, but most of my efforts were devoted to a problem in Ms. Lancaster's room (210).  Most of it has already been discussed with Mitch, Erik, and Sanjaya via email.  Regardless:

Windows wouldn't load on one of the Dell 280s.  It gave an error that it was missing a system file.  I did not restore the machine because she had several important files on the computer from the Earphonics and Lexia programs.  I removed the hard drive and made it a secondary device in another machine.  From there, I copied the files to the USB drive and went to ghost her machine, with the intention of putting the files (student test records) back after I was done.  Unfortunately, the ghost program would not read the mouse or keyboard no matter what combination of USB ports I used.  This was especially strange because I was able to use the keyboard and the mouse seemed function when I loaded the ghost CD (through the F12 setup).  

That's currently where things stand.  I'm confident that once that once that hurdle is overcome its all down hill.  Regardless, it was another successful week at Ray!

By the way, in case you hadn't heard, a 6th grader from Ray won the city spelling bee.  