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My P4C800-E and Me
Thursday was a holiday last week (Veteran's Day) and I had Friday off, so
when I arrived home on Wednesday afternoon to find my new motherboard and memory and processor had all arrived via FedEx just when I was expecting them, I was delighted that I had plenty of time to upgrade my computer and have days left over to play this weekend. I started to work Wednesday afternoon, and I'm still at it this afternoon -- 6:15 pm Sunday. That's right, I have done nothing nothing NOTHING for the past 4 and a half days but work on my computer. Wake up, work until x a.m., go to bed, get up, work until x a.m. agian. Quick trip to the computer store, spend more money, and back to work. I've sat here at this computer all day every day since Wednesday afternoon. Right here. In this chair. Every day. Every hour. Since this past Wednesday. Here. Me. Doing nothing but work on this computer. If I were to try to tell everything that I've done, that's gone wrong, that's illogical, that's unimaginable, I could type a small book. But I won't do that to you. No, I won't let my frustration bubble over, let my anger manifest itself, let my ignorance become public, let my true feelings, true feelings, true ........ ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! I will not cuss. I will not. Not me. No. I will not fret that I needed to spend some time in the office this weekend to prepare for the trip to Orlando tomorrow. No I won't fret over that. I'll just get up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow and head to work and spend the morning doing all I shoulda done today while I was installing Windows 2000 and Windows XP and re-installing and re-installing and re...............ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! You got some suggestions, some helpful recommendations, some words of wisdom? WELL SHOVE 'EM UP YOUR I will not cuss I will not cuss. I want a dual-boot system. I had everything set perfectly this afternoon. Beautiful Win2K. Outstanding WinXP. Then I tried to run Norton Ghost to save both partitions in their pristine states. And Norton Ghost took over my computer and rebooted and everything everything everything everything was lost. At 3:00 p.m. today I had to start over. Start over. Over. Start over. Again. Start over. Over. Over. I am not losing my mind. Over. Again. Over. Over. You want to hear about my new Asus board and SCSI? You want to hear? You want to hear about scanners that BIOS thinks are hard drives? Well, you will not hear, because I will not cuss. You want to hear about my new Asus board and S-ATA? Well, you will not hear, because I will not cuss. Not cuss. Not me. But I will SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM! And that's all I have to say about that. Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Glad I'm Seeing The Light at the End of the Tunnel Now Favog P.S. Is there any way to force an OS installation disk to designate the three partitions on an S-ATA drive as C: D: and E: while two EIDE drives are attached to the system? The only way I've found to make the system install C: on the partition I want to be C: and D: on the partition I want to be D: is to unplug the two EIDE drives, leaving the only HDD in the system my S-ATA drive. Then the installation programs sees drives C: D: and E:. If the EIDE drives are attached, the WinXP and Win2K installation programs will insist that the slave EIDE drive is C: and the Primary is D: and the S-ATA partitions are something else, I dunno, something off the wall. Is there a more elegant solution to this little problem I've been having, other than unplugging the IDE cable every time I need to run an OS installation program? |
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"LeeBos" wrote in message ... I understand your frustrations, had similar problems setting up XP pro on my P4C800E-D also. Don't know the answer to your drive questions because it been over 6mo since I built mine. But I can give you a word of caution on using Ghost. USE A GHOST BOOT FLOPPY! Do not, I repeat do not use ghost from within windows, It changes the boot sector of your HDD. It makes a temp boot partition and boots to dos from it to run, If it fails to boot, (mine did), you're screwed and will have great difficulty getting things back to normal. You probably already found out, the hard way. I did not have to reformat and reinstall but I was swetting bullets for a while. Ghost from a boot floppy or boot CD works fine. Oh, I know that. I know that NOW! Yes, indeedy, I learned that little lesson this afternoon, and I tried fixboot and fixmbr and nothing worked, nothing but re-installing Win2K and then I actually fixed the WinXP partition but it takes forever to boot now and I think I will have to go back and re-re-re-re-re-install WinXP. Sigh. Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Good at Re-Installing Now Favog |
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