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Day 6

Day 6 without my computer. I’m held to using my wife’s, although I might be able to repair it today. The problem is, my OS is an SP1 version of XPPro, which doesn’t recognize my SATA Controller - so one must, upon trying to reinstall the OS, load the SATA Controller drivers - but the disc insists that those drivers must be given to it via a legacy drive - the dreaded ‘A’. So, upon finding an old floppy drive, I’ve enabled myself to at least *try* to load windows onto the HDD.

Of course, part of the reason I was unable to work on it was that we were in Winnipeg this weekend, attending Donny and Riki’s wedding. Carlos, Donny’s Best Man, and someone I’ve spent countless hours with in Azeroth, gave one of the best Best Man speeches I have ever seen in my life.

Many of the invitees were alumni of the infamous 110 Columbia, which now sits as a crater on Columbia St in Waterloo (one imagines the 52″ TV which sustained our undergraduate lives sitting within the crater like a monolith, with students dancing around it wielding crude tools made out of bones…). It was good to see old friends and discuss old times, and of course, the future. Robyn and I also tried to convince a few more to join the city with streets paved with gold…

Update: The computer boots. Once I gain access to all of my important files that were created since last backup, then I’ll format the thing and re-do. If the drive is salvageable, I may even buy one more and start a nice little RAID array…

Update #2: The computer randomly freezes. Seagate’s utility says the drive is fine, but chkdsk says it isn’t. I now have a brand new HDD to try out and see if it continues to randomly lock. If it does, my board’s probably fubarred since my CPU and Memory are fine, which means getting a new computer under duress (in which case I’ll use both drives), and if the new drive works, well, then the other is trash.