Submitted by Stoort (not verified) on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 19:57.
I installed Drupal on WAMP under XP, got past all the idiosyncrasies such as using PHP 5.2, it was working, then...literally the Blue Screen of Death.
Windows just would not boot - kept restarting. I eventually booted to a Windows disc and ran chkdsk, which found "minor errors". I was able to boot XP, but no Windows services worked. Really. Update, COM, Installer, nothing. Tried doing a repair install (3x) to no avail. Ended up having to do a complete reinstall (even formatted the HD to be safe) and now it seems to be fine (about a week now).
I want to get working with Drupal, and I have been advised by various developer colleagues that WAMP is one of the best to use, but now I am a little afraid.
I'm not a techie, but neither am I a complete noob. I'm comfortable in Linux, but this is is being set up for a friend who insists on Windows.
Any ideas and/or comfort that it was a one-time thing are greatly appreciated.
I installed Drupal on WAMP under XP, got past all the idiosyncrasies such as using PHP 5.2, it was working, then...literally the Blue Screen of Death.
Windows just would not boot - kept restarting. I eventually booted to a Windows disc and ran chkdsk, which found "minor errors". I was able to boot XP, but no Windows services worked. Really. Update, COM, Installer, nothing. Tried doing a repair install (3x) to no avail. Ended up having to do a complete reinstall (even formatted the HD to be safe) and now it seems to be fine (about a week now).
I want to get working with Drupal, and I have been advised by various developer colleagues that WAMP is one of the best to use, but now I am a little afraid.
I'm not a techie, but neither am I a complete noob. I'm comfortable in Linux, but this is is being set up for a friend who insists on Windows.
Any ideas and/or comfort that it was a one-time thing are greatly appreciated.