to really mess up your day. I was just minding my business working on my desktop when I heard the worst sound. I knew instantly my c: drive was having a hard drive attack. It doesn’t appear that there’s any salvaging of any data or anything. That’s the bad news, the good news is all of the data I really need is on other drives or have been backed up.
So what am I doing on Labor Day Friday? Blogging and getting my computer back to where it’s was just a mere six hours ago. It’s frustrating but it could have been much worse. Would you like a glass half full with water? So now, it’s going to be sitting and waiting and watching my computer slowly rebuild itself. I need to put a disk image on one of my other drives so I don’t have to go through this the next time. Hey Best Buy, let me know when a big honking external disk drive goes on sale, will ya?
Oh, by the way, I’ve never been one to criticize Microsoft (everyone else does it very well) but when I’m upgrading to Media Center 2005, it asks for Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD, that’s all well and good but they really mean the Windows XP Media Center Upgrade disk. That’s not enough to make even techno-geeks insane!
So “Setup” promises it’ll be done upgrading me to MCE 2005 in just 37 minutes so for now, I guess I’ll spend some time on the ‘net looking at the Big Brother posts and reading the news.
Oh, by the way, Microsoft has released Media Player 11. I haven’t got a lot of time to use it but it’s like Microsoft is throwing people bones because Vista is late in shipping.
While I’m streaming top of mind, I’m getting a headache from the stress of knowing I have to rebuild this computer and all of the time I’m wasting sitting here at 11:00pm on a Friday night. Some people would call it fun… I don’t think I’d go that far!
Final note: 34 minutes remaining…
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