2,000 gigabytes of stuff, 4 gigabytes per disk, well, you do the math.
Not Again!, Not Fucking Again!
The frustration is indescribable in words, when the blue screen of death flashes in front of your very eyes, the click of the hard drive combined with the whirl of the CPU fans restarting, and when the OS you were using, was installed anew, 10 fucking minutes kind of new.
I made a big mistake, a week ago when I reformatted. I was too confident.
I didn't put in spybot, adaware, or a firewall until I've updated all the drivers and gotten all the gimmicks and programs i needed off the web. Within 3 days, the single ad-popping spyware had infiltrated my system with so many problems, Symatec anti-virus gave me too many warnings, enough to slow my computer to a crawl.
Reboot, F8 to safe mode, drag the few megabytes of new data off the C disk before I wipe it again, and bam.
30 minutes later, a fresh new OS, albeit fake.
Without the seal of authenticity Microsoft so lovingly wants, I found that I couldn't install MSN messenger without it telling me that the update MSN messenger, a Microsoft product, had downloaded a file that does not have a trusted digital seal.
W.T.F?
The good news was, I only had to fret about the situation for 5 minutes.
After 5 Minutes, my computer flashed me with the BSoD, it was like getting raped in the face by the antlers of Santa's personal Christmas reindeer's, all of them.
So, unaware of the severity of the situation, and several more try and die attempts, I've mentally declared that particular "formatted partition" had been fucked.
Now, I'm glad, and sad, that i've been doing extremely poor house cleaning with my hard drives. Not having deleted my old OS which I chose to abandon weeks ago seemed like the smarted decision so far. Although, the nearly 2 tera bytes of data, left unsorted and possibly lost to oblivion if the hard drives decides to physically fail, is very, very dire news.
2,000 gigabytes of stuff, 4 gigabytes per disk, well, you do the math.
It's been since the 56K, when downloading went a bit at a time, (that's 1/8th of a byte), and every picture, mp3, or text file you downloaded was precious. It took me 7 hours and 45 minutes to download the demo for Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, 125 megabytes, over a 56k modem, and I enjoyed every bloody minute of that demo after it had finished, although it was a piece of crap. The download was just too precious to not love to death.
I've never ever deleted anything without burning it down, therefore reducing my computer area into piles and piles of old folders of burnt CD's and DVD's. That habbit has died down last year, but the downloading didn't stop. Since then i've diligently organized, burnt, labled, and stuck on pretty little ($14 a pack) sticker lables onto each DVD.
And Now, I'm sitting in a dark room, CPU fans whirling and DVD drive spinning, I can't find a pencil, and I'm all out of sticker lables. But still making up for the long over due house cleaning that was but only inevitable.
oh, another one's done, about 496 more to go.
The frustration is indescribable in words, when the blue screen of death flashes in front of your very eyes, the click of the hard drive combined with the whirl of the CPU fans restarting, and when the OS you were using, was installed anew, 10 fucking minutes kind of new.
I made a big mistake, a week ago when I reformatted. I was too confident.
I didn't put in spybot, adaware, or a firewall until I've updated all the drivers and gotten all the gimmicks and programs i needed off the web. Within 3 days, the single ad-popping spyware had infiltrated my system with so many problems, Symatec anti-virus gave me too many warnings, enough to slow my computer to a crawl.
Reboot, F8 to safe mode, drag the few megabytes of new data off the C disk before I wipe it again, and bam.
30 minutes later, a fresh new OS, albeit fake.
Without the seal of authenticity Microsoft so lovingly wants, I found that I couldn't install MSN messenger without it telling me that the update MSN messenger, a Microsoft product, had downloaded a file that does not have a trusted digital seal.
W.T.F?
The good news was, I only had to fret about the situation for 5 minutes.
After 5 Minutes, my computer flashed me with the BSoD, it was like getting raped in the face by the antlers of Santa's personal Christmas reindeer's, all of them.So, unaware of the severity of the situation, and several more try and die attempts, I've mentally declared that particular "formatted partition" had been fucked.
Now, I'm glad, and sad, that i've been doing extremely poor house cleaning with my hard drives. Not having deleted my old OS which I chose to abandon weeks ago seemed like the smarted decision so far. Although, the nearly 2 tera bytes of data, left unsorted and possibly lost to oblivion if the hard drives decides to physically fail, is very, very dire news.
2,000 gigabytes of stuff, 4 gigabytes per disk, well, you do the math.
It's been since the 56K, when downloading went a bit at a time, (that's 1/8th of a byte), and every picture, mp3, or text file you downloaded was precious. It took me 7 hours and 45 minutes to download the demo for Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, 125 megabytes, over a 56k modem, and I enjoyed every bloody minute of that demo after it had finished, although it was a piece of crap. The download was just too precious to not love to death.
I've never ever deleted anything without burning it down, therefore reducing my computer area into piles and piles of old folders of burnt CD's and DVD's. That habbit has died down last year, but the downloading didn't stop. Since then i've diligently organized, burnt, labled, and stuck on pretty little ($14 a pack) sticker lables onto each DVD.
And Now, I'm sitting in a dark room, CPU fans whirling and DVD drive spinning, I can't find a pencil, and I'm all out of sticker lables. But still making up for the long over due house cleaning that was but only inevitable.
oh, another one's done, about 496 more to go.
posted by thecrowes at
11:03 PM
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Kind of old but...
Crescenet's comment brings up a very interesting viewpoint. I also find it extremely likable when one of my hard drives dies. Although no one has ever congratulated me on a job well done though.
When it comes to installing XP, I have two words for you though: Student Edition.
Well written article.
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