Well... No, it all sucks.
Jun. 20th, 2003 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So I got a bootable Win2K setup CD-ROM. I tried to run the Repair Console. It was like... what installation of Windows? You have Windows on this computer? I tried to run the Emergency Repair process and it was like... Um. You don't have Windows on this computer.
Fine, i said. Install a new version.
There's a version of Windows on this computer, it said. I'm going to overwrite it and delete your My Documents folder.
No, don't do that, I said. I have a lot of irreplaceable things in that My Documents folder. Install in this new folder that I'm naming for you, and I'll take the important files from you and try to patch up my old install with them. Motherfucker.
Oh. OK, it said. Don't call me that or I'll delete them anyway.
It rebooted in the middle of the install, but I wasn't looking, so I was merely amazed that it took such a short time to do. So I tried to start up and it was like, no honey, you gotta start over.
Sigh. So I did.
It remembered what I was trying to do and picked up sort of where it had left off... I hope, unless it automatically reverted to the default installation folder, in which case a shitload of irreplaceable files are, indeed, gone... and it installed Win2K, though as far as i could tell it didn't do much more than just fuck around with the settings.
So, I rebooted when it told me to.
Which installation of Windows do you want to start up? it asked. Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows 2000 Professional?
Uh...
I chose the wrong one and it took ten minutes to give me the error message. Right, right, so I rebooted again and chose the other one.
Same error message.
Except...
Different file was corrupt. Yup, this was the new install, and already an installation file was corrupt. Fatally corrupt.
Don't touch your computer anymore, Dave said. Turn it off. I don't know Windows and I don't know hardware, but I do know that kind of behavior indicates that you've got a disk hardware failure. Don't fuck around with it anymore or you won't be able to salvage your files.
Great...
So, he doesn't really know, but he's going to try and borrow a computer from his work that he can put the hard drive into. Unfortunately, my disk is partitioned using NTFS, not FAT, and OS X doesn't support NTFS... except maybe it does. Hm.
So he's going to try using Virtual PC. No other computer we have right here will do; Hemulen's the only other tower and its drives are SCSI, not whatever my drive is.
But the fact remains, he's a Mac geek. And all his knowledge is about Macs. OS 6-10, sure, but Mac. He's never even watched an installation of Windows. ("I know people who've installed it..." he says, in a gross understatement for a 4-year attendee of a large computer science and information technology school.)
So...
Maybe we'll abandon the Virtual PC idea and just buy me a new hard drive, install Windows, put the old drive in, steal my files...
I just don't like dealing with a computer that doesn't know where my files are. It's scary.
Bleargh, I need to go shower.
I hate all this. it sucks.
So, anyone who has any advice, please do tell. :-/
Fine, i said. Install a new version.
There's a version of Windows on this computer, it said. I'm going to overwrite it and delete your My Documents folder.
No, don't do that, I said. I have a lot of irreplaceable things in that My Documents folder. Install in this new folder that I'm naming for you, and I'll take the important files from you and try to patch up my old install with them. Motherfucker.
Oh. OK, it said. Don't call me that or I'll delete them anyway.
It rebooted in the middle of the install, but I wasn't looking, so I was merely amazed that it took such a short time to do. So I tried to start up and it was like, no honey, you gotta start over.
Sigh. So I did.
It remembered what I was trying to do and picked up sort of where it had left off... I hope, unless it automatically reverted to the default installation folder, in which case a shitload of irreplaceable files are, indeed, gone... and it installed Win2K, though as far as i could tell it didn't do much more than just fuck around with the settings.
So, I rebooted when it told me to.
Which installation of Windows do you want to start up? it asked. Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows 2000 Professional?
Uh...
I chose the wrong one and it took ten minutes to give me the error message. Right, right, so I rebooted again and chose the other one.
Same error message.
Except...
Different file was corrupt. Yup, this was the new install, and already an installation file was corrupt. Fatally corrupt.
Don't touch your computer anymore, Dave said. Turn it off. I don't know Windows and I don't know hardware, but I do know that kind of behavior indicates that you've got a disk hardware failure. Don't fuck around with it anymore or you won't be able to salvage your files.
Great...
So, he doesn't really know, but he's going to try and borrow a computer from his work that he can put the hard drive into. Unfortunately, my disk is partitioned using NTFS, not FAT, and OS X doesn't support NTFS... except maybe it does. Hm.
So he's going to try using Virtual PC. No other computer we have right here will do; Hemulen's the only other tower and its drives are SCSI, not whatever my drive is.
But the fact remains, he's a Mac geek. And all his knowledge is about Macs. OS 6-10, sure, but Mac. He's never even watched an installation of Windows. ("I know people who've installed it..." he says, in a gross understatement for a 4-year attendee of a large computer science and information technology school.)
So...
Maybe we'll abandon the Virtual PC idea and just buy me a new hard drive, install Windows, put the old drive in, steal my files...
I just don't like dealing with a computer that doesn't know where my files are. It's scary.
Bleargh, I need to go shower.
I hate all this. it sucks.
So, anyone who has any advice, please do tell. :-/
this is from kat
Date: 2003-06-20 05:34 pm (UTC)