pc spring-cleaning day

0 comments   Thursday, August 31, 2006

due to the many ILLEGAL OPERATIONS that have been happening recently, i decided to give my dear PC a major overhaul today, and also installing WinXP on my SATA HDD rather than my ancient IDE one for faster read/write speeds... all was going fine, when I made a major mistake ! I had connected my SATA HDD and left it outisde of the casing on the floor... just when my right foot accidentally gave me a kick and causing the whole system to HANG !!!

what's great ? it refused to start up after that ! it was an expensive hundred dollar kick in-my-opinion... T_T

i thought that it was a goner, and that means forking out a hundred over for a new HDD already... but then i decided to try an unorthodox method - removing the HDD for a while and that it'll hopefully boot up again ! (so much for studying IT)...

and guess what ?

IT WORKED !!!



i also vacuumed the interior of my pc casing, removing the dust, etc ... i have lotsa installing & configuring over the next a few days, and i've just skinned my OS !!! it's not Windows Vista, it just looks like it ... =)



now to get apache server installed and start experimenting with PHP !