Well. The operation was successful. I'm now on XP.

[dr4b]

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...

Comments

[mj2q.livejournal.com]

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.

[dr4b]

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?

[mj2q.livejournal.com]

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.