Yeah, but this is a Windoze machine. What could possibly go wrong? 8-D
This is not a work machine. This is my "goof-off on the internet"
machine and I have already prepared myself mentally that I'm going to
have to re-install everything from scratch after installing Windoze7.
I'd have just bought a cheap off-the-shelf Windoze7 machine if I could
have found one that I could move my hard-disks over. But nothing I
looked at locally in my price range even had accommodation for even one
added hard-disk - not just no place to mount it in the case, but no free
SATA connectors on the mother-board.
If it were an automobile, this would be one of those "jack up the
antenna & slip a new car under it" overhauls.
The only real significance is if I hadn't noticed in time that the Nikon
firmware update will only run under WindozeXP, I'd have been screwed.
Not *bad* screwed, mind you, just "made a whole lot of extra work for
myself" screwed.
On 4/24/2014 1:47 AM, David Mann wrote:
On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:41 pm, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
I've spent the last couple of days making sure I've got backups of EVERYTHING and
that I've made a list of all the product keys & activation codes for the
programs I use. I was planning to tackle the job on Thursday.
Good luck :)
I just had to rebuild a machine from backups this week. My home Linux server
had a memory module go bad and it crapped all over the filesystem to the extent
it was completely unrecoverable. Fsck found so many problems it had to expand
/lost+found several times, and at the end I was left with a big pile of
filesystem spaghetti, eg /etc became a symlink to some random file in /lib.
I realised there was technically no need for hardware anymore so I set up
another Virtualbox instance on my laptop, installed Debian and restored what I
could from my very limited backups. If I'd had a full backup it would have
been a lot quicker but it's probably for the best as I'm on a newer OS version.
Today I had the pleasure of running DBAN on it and will take it to be recycled
at some stage. I was sure to return my good DIMM to the old scanner machine :)
Later on I have the pleasure of crawling around the roof removing all of the
network cables as I'll no longer have a need for them once I move a phone
socket, which I'll do at the same time. I hope the rat in the ceiling has
either left or been tempted by the traps! (Last weekends job was to trim the
lemon tree so the bastards can't get up there anymore.)
Cheers,
Dave
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