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Here I am, writing from a fresh - and most importantly, completely legal - English-language installation of Windows Vista Enterprise 32 bit.
This is my third one for today because I ran into a rather weird problem.
It seems that Vista gets confused when you've got both SATA and PATA (formerly known as IDE) drives in your comp. Wanting to boot from the (older and slower, but certainly more common) PATA drive(s), the SATA drive(s) are all but ignored unless you boot via the Vista installation DVD.
Sounds too crazy to be true, but believe me, it is. I've been struggling with that crap all day, thinking the "Disk Boot Failure" messages were due to me doing something wrong. But alas, they weren't.
It's just Vista being an utter idjit.
Isn't that just lovely?
Luckily, I only have to resart my comp like, once a week. And then, I put the DVD into the SATA DVD drive, the one I hardly use anyway. It being in there doesn't even disturb me *shrugs*
Some day, I gotta pull out that PSTA disk and replace it with another Samsung SP2504C. I remember when only having the one SATA drive, Vista beta installed - and booted - without complaining once.
Apparently, SATA is still too obscure. Am I the only one who has it?? O_o
Apart from that, I'm madly on love with the OS once again ^__^
I mean, hell, it's gorgeous!
Also, I got most of my drivers (graphics, sound, LAN) delivered via Windows Update. How crazy is that? Well, crazy but certainly convenient.
Right now, I still don't have most of the applications installed that are on my list.
However, my Firefox is completely equipped (OMG, getting all the addons back took an eternity ;_;), I can listen to mucis and all of my emails and bookmarks are still alive. Whee~!!
And my keyboard's fignerprint reader is working as well! For some strange reason, I feel so insecure without it protecting my Windows password *lol*
I also lost two LJ entries I was working on because Semagic saved the files on my C:\ drive. Oopsie-daisy. Seems I just can't set up a new installation of Windows without something being killed. At elast it wasn't anything too important since I can always write stuff again, maybe even better ^_^;;;
(BTW, meet my new "The world is trying to fuck with me but I don't give a damn" icon.)
This is my third one for today because I ran into a rather weird problem.
It seems that Vista gets confused when you've got both SATA and PATA (formerly known as IDE) drives in your comp. Wanting to boot from the (older and slower, but certainly more common) PATA drive(s), the SATA drive(s) are all but ignored unless you boot via the Vista installation DVD.
Sounds too crazy to be true, but believe me, it is. I've been struggling with that crap all day, thinking the "Disk Boot Failure" messages were due to me doing something wrong. But alas, they weren't.
It's just Vista being an utter idjit.
Isn't that just lovely?
Luckily, I only have to resart my comp like, once a week. And then, I put the DVD into the SATA DVD drive, the one I hardly use anyway. It being in there doesn't even disturb me *shrugs*
Some day, I gotta pull out that PSTA disk and replace it with another Samsung SP2504C. I remember when only having the one SATA drive, Vista beta installed - and booted - without complaining once.
Apparently, SATA is still too obscure. Am I the only one who has it?? O_o
Apart from that, I'm madly on love with the OS once again ^__^
I mean, hell, it's gorgeous!
Also, I got most of my drivers (graphics, sound, LAN) delivered via Windows Update. How crazy is that? Well, crazy but certainly convenient.
Right now, I still don't have most of the applications installed that are on my list.
However, my Firefox is completely equipped (OMG, getting all the addons back took an eternity ;_;), I can listen to mucis and all of my emails and bookmarks are still alive. Whee~!!
And my keyboard's fignerprint reader is working as well! For some strange reason, I feel so insecure without it protecting my Windows password *lol*
I also lost two LJ entries I was working on because Semagic saved the files on my C:\ drive. Oopsie-daisy. Seems I just can't set up a new installation of Windows without something being killed. At elast it wasn't anything too important since I can always write stuff again, maybe even better ^_^;;;
(BTW, meet my new "The world is trying to fuck with me but I don't give a damn" icon.)
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