A long couple of days!
Mar. 14th, 2003 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joeyeah_rightWell, my hard drive died on Tuesday night...
Well, it didn't die completely, but it kept failing every 1/2 hour or so, and when it failed, it made some very strange metallic grinding noises and my computer stopped working!
i had thought it might die at some point soon, so i had bought a new 80GB drive ready to install when my current drive died, and i spent all of Wednesday formatting the new drive and installing an operating system (Win98SE) and all of my hardware and most of my software, and then i connected my old "very-near-death" drive as a slave-drive and tried copying the "My Documents" folder (which has all of my mp3s, photos and downloaded programs, and all of my important stuff - about 7GBs of stuff!!), but it took 35 minutes to do it, and 4 mins from the end the drive failed again, making horrible grinding noises!
i restarted the PC and the boot sequence said it couldn't find the slave drive and i was a bit panicky as i NEED all of the stuff in the My Documents folder, so i restarted and tried again and this time it worked! Yay!!
So that took me from 11am (when i started it) to 9pm (when i finally stopped for the night due to exhaustion! *grins*
And then today i was just gonna check on my mail and use the net to relax, but my uncle came over and showed me how to use Partition Magic 7.0 and i ended up partitioning my new hard drive in half and installing Linux (Mandrake Linux 9 to be exact) and the partitioning was left running on my computer and that alone took 5 hours to complete!!! And then i had the fun of installing Linux, which was surprisingly hassle-free, and took hardly any time at all!
But then before i could start using it, i HAD to watch Buffy and Angel! (and record them for Anna *smiles*).
So then i finally get on my computer to check mail and internet, and that brings me to here and now, which is just after 1.30am and i am about to fall asleep, but i felt i should write this entry first.
Tomorrow morning i am gonna have to do a search for linux drivers (or whatever it is that Linux uses), so it will run my modem, as it detected everything but the modem (It even detected the exact make & model of every bit of hardware on my PC without anything needing to be installed from the CDs, which i thought was pretty amazing! But i cannot connect to the net with it yet...
Anyway, i'm sleeping now!
Goodnight! *his head falls against the keyboard and he sleeps*
Well, it didn't die completely, but it kept failing every 1/2 hour or so, and when it failed, it made some very strange metallic grinding noises and my computer stopped working!
i had thought it might die at some point soon, so i had bought a new 80GB drive ready to install when my current drive died, and i spent all of Wednesday formatting the new drive and installing an operating system (Win98SE) and all of my hardware and most of my software, and then i connected my old "very-near-death" drive as a slave-drive and tried copying the "My Documents" folder (which has all of my mp3s, photos and downloaded programs, and all of my important stuff - about 7GBs of stuff!!), but it took 35 minutes to do it, and 4 mins from the end the drive failed again, making horrible grinding noises!
i restarted the PC and the boot sequence said it couldn't find the slave drive and i was a bit panicky as i NEED all of the stuff in the My Documents folder, so i restarted and tried again and this time it worked! Yay!!
So that took me from 11am (when i started it) to 9pm (when i finally stopped for the night due to exhaustion! *grins*
And then today i was just gonna check on my mail and use the net to relax, but my uncle came over and showed me how to use Partition Magic 7.0 and i ended up partitioning my new hard drive in half and installing Linux (Mandrake Linux 9 to be exact) and the partitioning was left running on my computer and that alone took 5 hours to complete!!! And then i had the fun of installing Linux, which was surprisingly hassle-free, and took hardly any time at all!
But then before i could start using it, i HAD to watch Buffy and Angel! (and record them for Anna *smiles*).
So then i finally get on my computer to check mail and internet, and that brings me to here and now, which is just after 1.30am and i am about to fall asleep, but i felt i should write this entry first.
Tomorrow morning i am gonna have to do a search for linux drivers (or whatever it is that Linux uses), so it will run my modem, as it detected everything but the modem (It even detected the exact make & model of every bit of hardware on my PC without anything needing to be installed from the CDs, which i thought was pretty amazing! But i cannot connect to the net with it yet...
Anyway, i'm sleeping now!
Goodnight! *his head falls against the keyboard and he sleeps*
