"Take it if you want it! The computer works, but you will need a harddrive."
I took it home and I tried it out with my brothers old XBOX HDD (when he chipped the XBOX he put in a larger HDD). Everything seemed to work ok, but since the XBOX HDD was still locked or something I couldn't use it.
Lucky me I have friends that had a spare HDD that I could borrow and yesterday when I got home the trip to a new working PC started...
I had promised my mom she could borrow the computer so she could transfer some really old recipes from her mom and grandmother. No one except her can read their handwriting so we thought it would be good to do it before the recipes fall apart.
The first problem I ran into was something to do with a missing NTLDR file or something. At first I had no idea what that meant and I unplugged the HDD, DVD, CD-RW and put them back again...no luck.
I came to think that I have my PC with a working internet connection so I found a solution for that pretty quick. After that I ran into some smaller problems with my Windows 98 disc, it just didn't want to install...why am I not surprised...
But after a couple of hours with formatting, installing and stuff I managed to make my way to a working Windows XP installation. If i hadn't promised my mom the computer I would had installed Linux on it instead to play around with and to learn myself how it works.
Oh, well...i just hope she will use it.
Thanks go out to:
Stefan (friend) - for providing me with the HDD.
Sababa Sushi (cat) - for keeping me company. Mjau mjau =^_^=
Google (search engine) - for providing me with solutions.
The anonymous neighbour - for leaving the computer in the storage room.
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Sooon it's weekend!!
I have no plans except sleeping and watching some movies. On sunday my brother comes to help me out with one of my shelfs that has gone a bit loose...we'll see if he decides to show up.
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