COMPUTER HO

[azurelunatic]

So after work today I hit Fry's Electronics, where I got a few things, including a nice new hard drive (1TB) and an industrial-strength datavacuum. Then I popped over to the Microsoft store, where I examined the Windows 7 options and went for Professional, as I don't really need paranoid-level security nor multiple languages.

Upon getting actually home, I called my bff for some moral support. The datavacuum was labeled with which way to twist the end to pull it off, but not which actual way was suck and which was blow. This of course is resolved by testing, but I complained anyway. Then I took a Sharpie to the datavacuum so I'll remember for next time.

The inside of the box was dustier than I thought it would be, so it was good that I'd got the vacuum. Bleh. I'm going to be sneezing all evening.

The screws that came with the drive assumed nice thin metal frame, not thick plastic, so I wound up using the screws from the old drive.

The installation was mostly straightforward, with the waiting-to-poking ratio tilted mostly in the direction of waiting. I discovered that if you say you have a driver to install to deal with the hard drive, it will not let you progress until you actually find a driver. So we restarted at that point.

Eventually I broke out the port. And the chocolate.

I'm installing stuff now. It's proceeding. I will fall on my face in bed soon. It's so good to have computers again.


Oh, also they brought me the real computer at work today. Yay!

Comments

[pne]

Hooray!

[azurelunatic]

It's excellent to be back.

[pineapplechild]

*cheers*

I am doing the new computer desktop build in the near future, myself...

[azurelunatic]

Have fun!

[triadruid]

Yay new comp! Need to do this soon...

[azurelunatic]

And I've still two empty DDR slots that I could stick things in. Which I might do. Later.

[triadruid]

I just read that as Dance Dance Revolution slots, which took a disturbing number of milliseconds for my visualization subprocessor to discard as unworkable.

And with your inspiration I started the ugly process of backing things up yesterday! I may not be able to build a new machine during Weed Season at work (brain full, etc) but I can at least do a clean install.

[azurelunatic]

Heh. I have that problem myself.

And hooray! Backups are good.

[jd]

Well in some ways, there is such a thing: I have way too much familiarity with the mechanics of PS2-USB converters. And that's PlayStation2, not something else. (The trick is to get one that treats the digital arrows as buttons, not as axes, so that you can do jumps without the directions cancelling. Which is uncommon because the most common way of handling is to map the controller as a joystick.)

[jecook]

Yes, windows 7 is actually pretty decent in the respect of "I can't seem to find your mass storage adapater- perchance would you have a CD for it?" wereas XP and earlier either went grump, flung blue poo at you.

And if windows already has all the drivers, or decent generics to get you to a point to install the real thing? it's mostly ProgressQuest. :)

[azurelunatic]

If only the "Woops, this cd is not right, but you seem to already have the driver so it's all good" were better.