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Date Posted: 12:35:47 10/17/02 Thu
Author: Tarnish
Subject: Growing pains

So, I did it. I finally broke down and bought a 40 Gig hard drive to replace my 9 Gig that was getting overfull and starting to ack wonky since it'd been over a year since the last reload.

The trauma, you ask ? Why, that's simple: Which Operating System to use ?

Windows 98 - My old and trusted friend. Completely and comfortably customizable to match my every whim.

Windows ME - Screw that ... Heard too many horror stories.

Windows XP - Herein lies the quandry. My friend and pirate associate was able to lay hands on a copy of said operating system in a less than secure state than Microsoft would appreciate.

I have chosen to move with the times and I am running Windows XP, but that alone was not without stress from countless sources. Primarily, it was a 3 hour string of failures to install this booty, so I was forced to go a different route. Legitimate copy. *cringe* I feel dirty from not being underhanded in obtaining my copy.

Next trouble. Drivers. Despite the months upon months of XP's release, there is a distinct industry stigma on the part of some companies to put as much time into drivers and software for it as there was for Windows 98.

So, while you can generally get something to work under XP, it's not as fully functional as it was under 98.

Speaking with my friend on the phone today, I told him how I had installed a pull-out drive bay and could swap between secondary HDs in my machine. I menioned that I had used one unpartitioned drive and one partitioned drive and that my drive letters were weird in that I had the Main drive set as C: and D: the secondary as E: and H: while my CD's obtained F: and G: ... He told me that I could just go to a certain place in my Start menu and change a setting here or there and bingo. I told him that I couldn't see much of what he was telling me to go to since I have already tried to make XP look as much like my beloved 98 as possible.

He said, "Why'd you bother switching ?"

I'm still asking myself that. This is all just growing pains, but the funniest part is that if you say growing pains fast enough, it sounds like groin pains.

T

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Replies:

rofl -- Su, 17:28:59 10/18/02 Fri
- hi Su! -- LS, 06:49:21 10/23/02 Wed
  - Re: hi Su! -- Su, 17:01:11 09/25/14 Thu
    - Re: hi Su! -- tint, 21:46:10 08/11/15 Tue