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Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2004-01-06 02:16 am
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Well. The operation was successful. I'm now on XP.

Yeah. So today when I came home from work I went upstairs and turned off my computer and unplugged everything and opened it up and proceeded to put my new hard drive in my computer and put windows XP on it. It mostly seems to have worked.

In more detail:
First I opened it up.
Then I noticed there's really only one rack space for a hard drive in the thing because it's RETARDED.
Then I got Eli to look at it and he mostly agreed.
So I decided I was going to just leave the machine open and slave my old hard drive until I moved everything over. Whee.

I put in the new hard drive and installed win2k. It took, literally, almost 2 hours to format the freaking drive and install the OS. In the time it took, I read 20 pages of a book, went out to Sunset Bowl to play 4 games of DDR, shopped at Safeway for a bit, and reorganized most of my board games downstairs.

Win2k installed around 11pm; then I made it upgrade to XP. That took until midnight.

Fortunately, it was trivial to just attach the old hard drive to the slave IDE plug and reboot the machine, and BLAM, there's my old hard drive with all my stuff on it; I've been copying things over.

Priorities being what they are, I installed Puzzle Pirates pretty quickly. It was running REALLY choppy, and I was really frustrated, and then I downloaded a new driver for my graphics card, and whee! everything's all good.

I also seem to have my AIM contact list intact in Trillian, but not ICQ, so if you're someone I talk to in ICQ instead of AIM (I can't really think of anyone offhand besides Nykkel and Farren and sometimes DJ), don't be surprised if you get a "deanna's adding you to her list" thingy, although you shouldn't anyway because it's Trillian.

Arrr. So, it'll be neat to figure out over the next few days which thingies I have to reinstall and all...
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-01-06 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm confused: AIM and ICQ are the same thing these days, aren't they? (My understanding was that AOL bought Mirabilis, merged the two services, then eventually shut down the old ICQ servers and forced everyone to upgrade to new versions of ICQ; and that the current "ICQ" software is just a different user interface for AIM.) Certainly my experience is that users of either service can talk to both ICQ and AIM users....
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-01-06 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm running an ICQ client that doesn't seem to know how to find "allberyb". The client is pretty old, but I'm not seeing AOL-ness in my interactions with it. (I don't use it much, so I never bothered to try to stay modern.)
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-01-06 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. My (AOL) client knows your ICQ UIN exists, although it reports status as "Not authorized". But maybe they did keep some old (or old-new; there've been several protocol and server switches since the takeover) servers around.

(I recall them sending me an upgrade-or-die email when they merged the services (I had an ICQ UIN back then; it lapsed). Maybe they changed their minds, or got pressured by some large ICQ-using company to not deactivate the old service?)

[identity profile] ssaiscps.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
AIM stores your contact list on their central servers, ICQ does not.

[identity profile] dvarin.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
This is the primary reason why I abandoned ICQ--I was switching computers too often and the permissions system would make me wait for the other person's go-ahead before I could add them to my friends list. Every freaking time.

[identity profile] mj2q.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
heh, I found that my new computer also had only a single hard drive mount. My secondary (old) hard drive is now sitting in the new computer in a sock. Maybe I can do something better now that I have electrical tape.

[personal profile] dr4b 2004-01-06 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's AWESOME. I'm actually suddenly considering doing something like that too... why a sock though? Just so it won't get banged around?

[identity profile] mj2q.livejournal.com 2004-01-07 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Right, I figured it would reduce the chance of breaking or shorting something if the case got moved or got knocked over by little boys. I've been a little worried about extra heat, but that doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe I will be more concerned if I start using the drive more or the summer comes around.

[identity profile] bk1e.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure it only has one hard drive mount? Sometimes manufacturers like to hide them. A few hard drive hiding places:
- On top of the power supply (well, that one's relatively easy)
- Some desktop cases have a tiny metal bracket hidden behind the power supply, and two holes on the bottom of the case. Believe it or not, it works.
- Some tower cases come with flat metal brackets that you're supposed to use to extend the drive bay.
- Dell used to be into the mysterious vertical mount thing with their tower cases: parallel to the front bezel of the case.
- Half of the time I end up using those adapter brackets to put 3.5" drives in 5.25" bays. <shrug>

BTW, Trillian is starting to annoy me. When I delete someone from my contact list, it only deletes it from my local copy, not from the server, so next time I login on another computer, it re-discovers that contact.
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