*groan*
Most accomplished geeks never admit to a soul when they try to boot up their baby and it says, “unable to find NTFS.sys”.
It is possible that I will have to brave my brand new self-created recovery CD far sooner than I expected. We’ll try a windows repair when I get home, before getting all hasty-like.
(I thought perhaps the registry corrupted when I tried to reimport the entire thing and windows shit on me, saying that “trying to change the product ID was against the license agreement”, so I did it from my boot CD. Is it possible XP pro decided to cripple my fucking system because I tried a full import of my registry and it thought I was trying to hack it? W-T-F?)
=( Im sorry…
It’s all your fault, too! *teasing* Bet it’s a kitty whisker!
A full import… of the whole registry? That way lies madness.
Windows XP, to me, is like my elderly grandmother – a bit slow, forgets things at the most inconvenient times, and will just fall all to pieces if things around the place aren’t where she expects them to be.
This is not a full import of the registry from some hoary backup I made a year ago – this is a registry back-up I made on the previous boot. It should be entirely identical to what it needs. The fact that PROVIDES for export all and import all should be enough to say it is technically acceptable. I have my peeps checking to see if Microsoft screwed me without lube.
now that’s quite the sight…
*twitch*
*thinks happy thoughts*
*thinks happy thoughts*
*twitch*
linux worms in my brain get them out
That’s the kind of shit that drove me away from Windows — after the twelfth product activation failure in a row on a legitimate fucking copy of Server 2003, I was like ‘Fuck it. Matt, gimme your Ubuntu CD.’
Granted, I’d been planning it anyway, not least because it makes life easier for a web developer to be able to hack on his own box with a configuration almost exactly like the server where his pages live. That was the straw, tho.
Well, that and a few weeks before, when I’d had my carefully-kept-pristine-and-shitware-free laptop rooted past two software firewalls in less than twenty minutes of dialup connection. That just flabbergasted me.
You scare me with your moon man talk …my company wants to upgrade my home version to pro so that i can network with them..maybe it is a bad idea…