Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
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Wonderful world of Windows…
Posted by Thomas on 29 Sep 2004 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
This reminds me of why I really can’t stand Windows..
Had a problem with my computer recognizing my mouse & keyboard. (I have to use a funky keyboard/mouse switcher, to use both my laptop and person PC at the same time.) Fine; I power the box off, and back on again. Comes back and Windows XP complains it can’t find the system directory. grrrrr.
After much searching the Internet on my other machine, and talking to a very talented Windows co-worker, I’m SOL, pretty much.
So I buy a new hard drive, so I thought I could access & backup my documents, which proved to be fruitless. Also had to buy a floppy drive, so I could get the stupid serial ATA drivers to load, which have to load from a floppy disk. (Thanks, Bill!)
So about $100 later, I have my machine back up, but I did lose some documents. That’s life, I guess…. And I was just thinking to myself earlier this week I really need to back everything up!