Doing computer maintenance is a lot like taking your car in for service. Sure you get your problem fixed, but in the process you'll find 3 other problems you didn't even know you had.

The 2TB install has gone about as smoothly as a Rugby game played with explosives.

The computer wouldn't recognize the new drive OR the old one - if the new one was plugged in. So I had update the BIOS on my motherboard. Had a small heart attack when Windows decided to "blue screen of death" me while I was flashing the BIOS. Luckily my motherboard wasn't reduced to a useless pile of plastic.

But it still wouldn't recognize the new drive, after a dozen attempts to fix this. One of my friends hit on the idea that it might be a ATA/SATA conflict. Sure enough, I disconnected my ATA drives, which are my two CD/DVD drives - and lo, and behold... my computer can FINALLY see the new drive!!!

Now that it's finally installed, all I need to do is reinstall all my model files from the DVD's I burned before I started this project...



ARGH! I can't reinstall the model files WITHOUT A WORKING DVD DRIVE!!!!

Anyways - I ordered a SATA DVD burner, it would be nice if it arrived today so my friend the computer-genius could help me install it tonight. I just checked the UPS shipping info, it's due to arrive tomorrow...calm blue ocean...calm blue ocean...

I'm trying to take this in a positive way. I see this as proof positive, that there IS a god, because he's having WAAAAAAY too much fun at my expense.

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