Just one little upgrade yesterday
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techrecoverySo I start at 11AM to upgrade a WinNT 4.0 PC to Win2K, because it's gonna be the backup workstation, and they've got a new external USB 2.0 hard drive & software that won't run on NT 4..
First, it has approx 20 mg free space. Oops.
After deleting everything not absolutely important, I've got 700 mgs. Great. Put in the disk, and it tells me it can't load hal.dll.
WTF?
I try again. It appears to be going smoothly, if slowly. And I of course converted to NTFS.
Guess what? Unsupported video card. OK, I'll deal with VGA until we can find an updated driver.
Next, I have to deal with the fact that there's apparently no intenet connectivity, even tho it's on the network & everything there seems to be just fine.
Ooh, goody, someone has put in a proxy setting that points to a non-existant place! Delete it, OK, let's look for a driver for the video card. hahaha. The company has been sold twice, the card is certifiably antique, and according to the "expert" at the company, absolutely needed for the engineering design software. Fine. I'll deal with it later.
Go to attach the hard drive. Another oops. No USB connection.
So I drive across town to get a USB card. Open the box, oops, there's only 2 PCI slots, one for the network card and one for the video card.
At this point, my boss shows up to configure the backup software. She decides we just need to replace the video card. After replacing it & installing the drivers, it still won't get out of VGA mode, she says we'll deal with it later.
The USB install goes perfectly, the drive is recognized. Maybe it'll all be good now. But no.
The backup software doesn't have enough room to install, because of the 200 mg of ATI software. No problem, we'll use Partition Magic to make the C drive bigger. Unfortunately, my boss doesn't believe me that I converted to NTFS, because Partition Magic says there's a C: drive in the middle of the (11 gig) disk that's FAT. It turns out, if there's 3 partitions, and the one in the middle is FAT, Partition Magic think's it's the C: drive, and won't work anyway because it's not the same file system. We convert it. It still won't work right, we decide to call it a night at 7PM, my boss takes the box home.
Today, my boss tells me she had to whack-n-reload the whole thing, cuz nothing would load correctly. Sigh. Total hours on 1 stupid upgrade: 15. At what my boss bills at, they could've just bought a new box. And I could have gone home early.
First, it has approx 20 mg free space. Oops.
After deleting everything not absolutely important, I've got 700 mgs. Great. Put in the disk, and it tells me it can't load hal.dll.
WTF?
I try again. It appears to be going smoothly, if slowly. And I of course converted to NTFS.
Guess what? Unsupported video card. OK, I'll deal with VGA until we can find an updated driver.
Next, I have to deal with the fact that there's apparently no intenet connectivity, even tho it's on the network & everything there seems to be just fine.
Ooh, goody, someone has put in a proxy setting that points to a non-existant place! Delete it, OK, let's look for a driver for the video card. hahaha. The company has been sold twice, the card is certifiably antique, and according to the "expert" at the company, absolutely needed for the engineering design software. Fine. I'll deal with it later.
Go to attach the hard drive. Another oops. No USB connection.
So I drive across town to get a USB card. Open the box, oops, there's only 2 PCI slots, one for the network card and one for the video card.
At this point, my boss shows up to configure the backup software. She decides we just need to replace the video card. After replacing it & installing the drivers, it still won't get out of VGA mode, she says we'll deal with it later.
The USB install goes perfectly, the drive is recognized. Maybe it'll all be good now. But no.
The backup software doesn't have enough room to install, because of the 200 mg of ATI software. No problem, we'll use Partition Magic to make the C drive bigger. Unfortunately, my boss doesn't believe me that I converted to NTFS, because Partition Magic says there's a C: drive in the middle of the (11 gig) disk that's FAT. It turns out, if there's 3 partitions, and the one in the middle is FAT, Partition Magic think's it's the C: drive, and won't work anyway because it's not the same file system. We convert it. It still won't work right, we decide to call it a night at 7PM, my boss takes the box home.
Today, my boss tells me she had to whack-n-reload the whole thing, cuz nothing would load correctly. Sigh. Total hours on 1 stupid upgrade: 15. At what my boss bills at, they could've just bought a new box. And I could have gone home early.
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