Okay, I've had it with Windows, Microsoft, Asus, HP and any other hardware manufacturer, or big bloated software company that comes my way!
Today I got a SMART error with one of my hard drives. Being the paranoid one I am, and the fact that I got hosed about 2 months ago, I made a beeline to BestBuy and purchased a couple of new drives. A big 2TB WD for my Trainz stuff, and a new 1TB boot drive to replace the drive I had in there already. I was going to two 2TB, but they only had one drive, so I opted for the 1TB and the 2TB instead.
The hardware install is keyless in my case. I simply unplug the drive from the holder, screw the new drive in. I don't even have to power down my machine! This I put the new drive in a different slot, and hotloaded the new SATA drive. All I needed to do is format the new drive and clone my data in one shot. Done, easy scheemzy, no problem so I thought.
This cloning process was going to take some time, and since I still do not feel well because of the stinking pneumonia bug and the Parkinson's Disease, So, I went off to take a long nap. Besides lately, my patience level has been about 2 milliseconds if that, and the best thing for me to do is to step away before I snap someone's head off when they bug me. It seems no matter when I try to do something, I get bugged by the dog wanting to go out! There could be three people in the room doing nothing, and he'll come over to me no matter what! He usually waits until I'm positioned so I can see into my case. At this point, I have the screw driver set into a screw, which for me is a chore and half because I tend to drop the screw at least 20 times before I can screw it in, and the flashlight positioned in the other hand perfectly so I don't shine the light into my eyes, which I seem to do about four or five times before I get it positioned the right way.
Anyway, today I didn't need to open the case, but he had to bug me anyway. This time he waited until I was concentrating on the disk clone! I went off for my nap once the process got going, and when I got up, my PC had turned off, or so it seemed? I was puzzled because I was sure I had turned off power management in Windows because it always screws up stuff like Trainz and other graphics applications. Apparently there was an additional setting on my motherboard for PM that I didn't find when I first setup the system. When setting up systems, this is one of the first things I turn off, and yes I turned off some of the PM settings, but there were some new ones that I missed somehow in yet again a new menu!
What happened is the system had gone to sleep and shutdown in the middle of my data clone, and corrupted the boot sector of the new drive to a point where even Window's setup, on the Win7 DVD, wouldn't recognize the drive. Now this supposed 2 hour process finished 8 hours later, after fiddling with the drive, booting up my bro's system, and blowing away the dorked partition on the drive, I was finally able to dupe my data. The thing is, in all this time, I could have done a fresh install of Windows, Office, even Trainz if I had to, and would have been up and running before I got done farting around. Luckily I still had my old drive, and I was able to boot off of that one, but I had to fiddle with BIOS settings again for the system because somehow they got all messed up and my old drive wasn't recognized either!
By now I was so mad I was fuming. I could feel the heat barrel out of my shirt as I sweated. No wonder people write viruses! This isn't to get a thrill, or to sell them to the Russian mob for a profit, it's because the people have been burned, ticked-off, or worse screwed over by these miserable dorks at one of the computer giants. These developers love to write wizards and fancy interfaces that do nothing for the practical side of things. A simple BIOS interface, instead of menus, would be a lot easier to use. Software too has been getting worse too. Windows and the stupid wizards now makes assumptions worse than Google's search! Oh, it would be nice to go back the simpler times when we were able to simply install hardware and software without bowing to computer gods and farting around with confusing menus and wizards!
John
Today I got a SMART error with one of my hard drives. Being the paranoid one I am, and the fact that I got hosed about 2 months ago, I made a beeline to BestBuy and purchased a couple of new drives. A big 2TB WD for my Trainz stuff, and a new 1TB boot drive to replace the drive I had in there already. I was going to two 2TB, but they only had one drive, so I opted for the 1TB and the 2TB instead.
The hardware install is keyless in my case. I simply unplug the drive from the holder, screw the new drive in. I don't even have to power down my machine! This I put the new drive in a different slot, and hotloaded the new SATA drive. All I needed to do is format the new drive and clone my data in one shot. Done, easy scheemzy, no problem so I thought.
This cloning process was going to take some time, and since I still do not feel well because of the stinking pneumonia bug and the Parkinson's Disease, So, I went off to take a long nap. Besides lately, my patience level has been about 2 milliseconds if that, and the best thing for me to do is to step away before I snap someone's head off when they bug me. It seems no matter when I try to do something, I get bugged by the dog wanting to go out! There could be three people in the room doing nothing, and he'll come over to me no matter what! He usually waits until I'm positioned so I can see into my case. At this point, I have the screw driver set into a screw, which for me is a chore and half because I tend to drop the screw at least 20 times before I can screw it in, and the flashlight positioned in the other hand perfectly so I don't shine the light into my eyes, which I seem to do about four or five times before I get it positioned the right way.
Anyway, today I didn't need to open the case, but he had to bug me anyway. This time he waited until I was concentrating on the disk clone! I went off for my nap once the process got going, and when I got up, my PC had turned off, or so it seemed? I was puzzled because I was sure I had turned off power management in Windows because it always screws up stuff like Trainz and other graphics applications. Apparently there was an additional setting on my motherboard for PM that I didn't find when I first setup the system. When setting up systems, this is one of the first things I turn off, and yes I turned off some of the PM settings, but there were some new ones that I missed somehow in yet again a new menu!
What happened is the system had gone to sleep and shutdown in the middle of my data clone, and corrupted the boot sector of the new drive to a point where even Window's setup, on the Win7 DVD, wouldn't recognize the drive. Now this supposed 2 hour process finished 8 hours later, after fiddling with the drive, booting up my bro's system, and blowing away the dorked partition on the drive, I was finally able to dupe my data. The thing is, in all this time, I could have done a fresh install of Windows, Office, even Trainz if I had to, and would have been up and running before I got done farting around. Luckily I still had my old drive, and I was able to boot off of that one, but I had to fiddle with BIOS settings again for the system because somehow they got all messed up and my old drive wasn't recognized either!
By now I was so mad I was fuming. I could feel the heat barrel out of my shirt as I sweated. No wonder people write viruses! This isn't to get a thrill, or to sell them to the Russian mob for a profit, it's because the people have been burned, ticked-off, or worse screwed over by these miserable dorks at one of the computer giants. These developers love to write wizards and fancy interfaces that do nothing for the practical side of things. A simple BIOS interface, instead of menus, would be a lot easier to use. Software too has been getting worse too. Windows and the stupid wizards now makes assumptions worse than Google's search! Oh, it would be nice to go back the simpler times when we were able to simply install hardware and software without bowing to computer gods and farting around with confusing menus and wizards!
John
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