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Okay, fuck that WinXP shite. I mean just fuck it up its st00pid arse. See, this is what happened. I plug in the disc and tell it to do the upgrade. It says that Easy CD Creator 5 won't work under XP but I know this is no problem since XP has some built-in functionality for data CD writing and I'll figure out something else for audio CDs if I need to. So I say, go! And it copies a bunch of files, and inspects the config and restarts a couple times as is normal for a Windows install. Then, at "34 minutes estimated remaining" and in the middle of "Installing devices" (leastways that's what the progress bar was labelled at that point), it just hangs. Dead. No mouse movement, the little animated squares in the bottom right hand corner stop moving. Great, says me. Press reset. After restarting it tries to pick up where it left off. Repeat this about three times. At this point I say "okay, screw it, do a fresh install, I'll just lose my settings and all." No dice; same thing happens.
So I try to repair my Win2K install so I can boot from it again. Of course, unlike doing it right off under Win98, I had never made a boot/recovery disk. So I can't do the "emergency repair" stuff. So I try recovery console. It tells me the password I am entering is not the administrator password. Bloody hell. Okay... so I install a fresh Win2K install on D:. In this way I get the computer at least running, and copy the contents of My Documents and suchlike from C: onto D: for safekeeping. I then delete the botched WINNT folder on that drive and install it afresh on C:. So now I've spent about 6 hours so far today reinstalling software (since most of it has to exist in the registry to run) and downloading and installing Windows Update stuff (since that set me back to not having Service Pack 4, IE 6, etc).
That leaves out the hours I spent last night trying to get Windows to re-recognize my modem, in a repeat of the exact problem I had when I upgraded to Win2K in the first place, but I won't go into the details of that because the way I finally succeeded early this afternoon was in a fairly random and desperate fashion.
But, overall rating: I won't &#^&!^!ing be trying THAT again. >_
So I try to repair my Win2K install so I can boot from it again. Of course, unlike doing it right off under Win98, I had never made a boot/recovery disk. So I can't do the "emergency repair" stuff. So I try recovery console. It tells me the password I am entering is not the administrator password. Bloody hell. Okay... so I install a fresh Win2K install on D:. In this way I get the computer at least running, and copy the contents of My Documents and suchlike from C: onto D: for safekeeping. I then delete the botched WINNT folder on that drive and install it afresh on C:. So now I've spent about 6 hours so far today reinstalling software (since most of it has to exist in the registry to run) and downloading and installing Windows Update stuff (since that set me back to not having Service Pack 4, IE 6, etc).
That leaves out the hours I spent last night trying to get Windows to re-recognize my modem, in a repeat of the exact problem I had when I upgraded to Win2K in the first place, but I won't go into the details of that because the way I finally succeeded early this afternoon was in a fairly random and desperate fashion.
But, overall rating: I won't &#^&!^!ing be trying THAT again. >_
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Date: Apr. 12th, 2004 01:34 pm (UTC)From: