
Thursday, 29th of November, 2001
Wednesday, 28th of November, 2001
Tuesday, 27th of November, 2001
Monday 26th of November, 2001
Sunday, 25th of November, 2001
So I've been fighting this Windows 2000 Pro upgrade on Dad's machine. For some reason, it takes 6 minutes to "Prepare Network Connections", even with the NIC removed from the motherboard! I can only attribute it to a lack of CPU power, but it still doesn't make very much sense at all. So we had to just ditch it and go back to Win98 SE. Unfortunately, I forgot I formatted the DVD-RAM disc in NTFS, so I couldn't restore any of the files off the disc in Win98! Argh! The easiest solution was to just move that drive to my computer, and transfer the files to my hard drive and back on a FAT32 disc. Windows didn't like trying to calculate the estimated time for those 2GB files, but that's another fortunate thing, Retrospect was smart enough to only create 2GB fragments, since Windows only supports files up to 2GB in size! That's awesome. Coruse, then, it's my tradition with that computer that the floppy drive fried itself somewhere in this whole process, so I had to replace that stupid thing again. That computer drives me crazy, I don't believe how much time I spent fixing it all the time. At least I got a chance to totally test the DVD-RAM / Retrospect combo, and it's amazing.