This morning we got up and went to Swimming lessons and had a fabulous time.
Last night I tried installing Windows XP Pro on my PC. I moved the old HDD with C: D: and E: on it to the Secondary IDE port and partitioned, formatted and installed Windows on the 200Gb HDD in the Primary IDE port. Unfortunately, Windows detected the other drive being NTFS first so assigned the SECONDARY HDD C: D: and E: and my 200Gb HDD’s first partition as G: for crying out loud!
So I shut it down and unplugged the 80Gb drive and reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the 200Gb HDD.
I put on a bunch of drivers and configured XP how I like it. While installing drivers it kept detecting the modem about 10 times (each time I hit cancel it’d come up again) until I went into the Device Manager and saw 10 PCI Modems listed with yellow (!) on them. I installed the WiFi drivers for my network card and rebooted. Now my modem was not listed at all and it would not detect. I moved the modem to a new PCI slot and Windows would not boot. I moved it back and Windows would not boot. I moved it to other ports and eventually removed it altogether and Windows would not boot. I pulled all cards out and Windows would not boot.
So I shut it down and reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the 200Gb HDD.
After it rebooted while installing it came up with STOP C0000221 bluescreen. I rebooted and it did it again. I rebooted and it said “UNKNOWN HARD ERROR in SystemVolume\Windows\NTDLL.DLL”. I rebooted and the same error showed up.
So I shut it down and reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the 200Gb HDD.
Same blue screens and DLL errors.
So I shut it down and reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the 200Gb HDD.
While formatting it to NTFS it said it could not format the Hard Drive and the HDD needed replacing so I tried it a few more times and gave up.
I even tried booting a bootable Simply Mepis and Gentoo DVD and neither would start.
I swapped in RAM from my other PC and it would not boot.
I changed HDDs and it would not boot.
Every 2nd reboot it’d say the BIOS settings had changed and the CPU was set to a SAFE MODE speed and I’d have to go into the BIOS and rest the CPU settings to the correct ones.
So I got the shits and went to the shop to return the DVD I was going to watch today but couldn’t since I didn’t have a DVD Player nor PC to watch it on. I went to the BWS alcohol shop to get a carton of vino to drown my sorrows and Sienna ran headfirst into a glass door she didn’t see open. Daddy said not to run in the shop, but what does Daddy know? We went to a BP station and bought big chocolate icecreams to make us both feel better.
I gave up and put all the HDDs into my more powerful PC which was going to be the games/media center PC and built Windows on that with no problems. So it seems the HDD didn’t need replacing after all.
Today my wireless landline phones finally died so I will have to buy new ones tomorrow no doubt. They say bad things happen in threes so the rest of the year is only going to be fantastic.. all the crap has already happened.
To be honest, I can’t blame the PC for not wanting Windows on it after having Mandriva Linux on it for so long, but the fact that it wouldn’t let me put Linux back on means either it’s just sulking or has gone to heaven.
