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[bzarcher]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHFUCK.

The reinstall didn't help. Now it says that the HDD doesn't have enough space for patching Galaxies. This is a 40 gig drive with 28 gigs free.

I'm worried that it might mean that this means the HDD is going to fail, which sucks. I may have to borrow an external USB or Firewire drive to back up the several gigs of music and research I'd like to save.

I am starting to plan just how much I'd need to stop re-using or re-furbing parts, and just buying a totally new machine, all new parts, top to bottom. Build it, run it, and not worry about it.

Fuckfuckfuckfuck. Got a suggestion to try changing out the IDE cables for some spares. Did so. And now it won't recognize any of the IDE devices.

Tried booting with just one IDE device plugged in, tried booting with the old cables again. No change.

I'm getting just a bit frustrated.

Comments

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Just because I'm now in a position to say it, and it's my impression that an integral part of the whole experience is saying it...

This wouldn't happen if you used a Mac.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Eh. I also wouldn't be playing the games if I was on a mac, since I'm on my mac right now and not playing games.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

And, really, would not playing SW:G be such a bad thing?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I don't know, Phil? Would taking away the ability to do stuff with you friends be a bad thing?

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. My two best friends around here are Sarah and a Gamecube.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'll take the hammer to the gamecube, severely truncate your ability to speak to Sarah, and then you can see where I'm at today and give me advice on how to deal with the situation.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear things are going so well?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

It is going better now. Just was very, very frustrating. :/

[tarzxf.livejournal.com]

A good place to start for a "brand new machine" is suprisingly, walmart.

They start CHEAP (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=132690&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A132690)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

We'll see.

[neversremedy.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I keep getting a message that I have a worm on my harddrive, but the virus software I have only tells me about it, it doesn't remove it. At the same time I've got over 30gigs left on my 40gig hard drive, and it slows down if I try to run even something as simple as PSP8. I have yet to try to install Galaxies or EQ on my system, and I'm thinking I should be doing back-ups too.