[begin vent]
I decided to shuck aside some time and put WindowsXP Pro. on my PC at home this weekend.
I have 2 hd's, a regular ata33 10gig drive (playing space) that came with the box wayyyy back, and a 30 gig ata66 Seagate Barracuda (data/os) that runs off a Promise controller card.
Windows 2000 wouldn't install on 0-0 until I unplugged the 10gig and ran the installation off the 30gig using the regular IDE connection.
SO, this weekend, I thought things would be different. I formatted, chucked system commander (it doesn't see the new NTFS properly) and installed Windows XP. Everything went smooth as can be and I was up and running in about an hour. I spent the next 5 hours configuring my system, downloading like a mad man and installing software.
The 10 gigs of data I have were in tact! w00t! Or so I thought. I decided to format the 10gig spare drive so I could move the data off the FAT32 partition of the Seagate, and then move it back. I formatted the 10gigger, and when I tried to boot up, nothin'.
Ends up that the OS was installed on the Barracuda, but the MBR was on the other drive, so by formatting it, I farked myself.
A few hours later I give up, unplug the 10gig, reinstall XP, trying to pickup where I left off. But now, my data was nowhere to be found. XP could see the partition, but it wanted to format it. Hookup Partition Magic 7, unhide the drive, reboot, errors left and right. A few more attempts, with my fingers crossed and praying to the computer G-ds, and I could see the data!!! w00t!!! Then I copied the partition using Part Mag. over to the spare drive, then formatted NTFS, then back again and everythign is irie.
It was freakin' scary when I thought I might lose all that data. I do periodic updates, but, well ... it's never the same as where you 'left off' ...
[end vent]
I must admit, so far I'm just smokin' like crazy with XP ... everythin' is running REAL good, and it seems like every byte of memory is bein' flown by a TOP GUN!
I decided to shuck aside some time and put WindowsXP Pro. on my PC at home this weekend.
I have 2 hd's, a regular ata33 10gig drive (playing space) that came with the box wayyyy back, and a 30 gig ata66 Seagate Barracuda (data/os) that runs off a Promise controller card.
Windows 2000 wouldn't install on 0-0 until I unplugged the 10gig and ran the installation off the 30gig using the regular IDE connection.
SO, this weekend, I thought things would be different. I formatted, chucked system commander (it doesn't see the new NTFS properly) and installed Windows XP. Everything went smooth as can be and I was up and running in about an hour. I spent the next 5 hours configuring my system, downloading like a mad man and installing software.
The 10 gigs of data I have were in tact! w00t! Or so I thought. I decided to format the 10gig spare drive so I could move the data off the FAT32 partition of the Seagate, and then move it back. I formatted the 10gigger, and when I tried to boot up, nothin'.
Ends up that the OS was installed on the Barracuda, but the MBR was on the other drive, so by formatting it, I farked myself.
A few hours later I give up, unplug the 10gig, reinstall XP, trying to pickup where I left off. But now, my data was nowhere to be found. XP could see the partition, but it wanted to format it. Hookup Partition Magic 7, unhide the drive, reboot, errors left and right. A few more attempts, with my fingers crossed and praying to the computer G-ds, and I could see the data!!! w00t!!! Then I copied the partition using Part Mag. over to the spare drive, then formatted NTFS, then back again and everythign is irie.
It was freakin' scary when I thought I might lose all that data. I do periodic updates, but, well ... it's never the same as where you 'left off' ...
[end vent]
I must admit, so far I'm just smokin' like crazy with XP ... everythin' is running REAL good, and it seems like every byte of memory is bein' flown by a TOP GUN!
