How -not- to fix a PC (cont.)
Well it only took nine hours to scrub windows in the end. So about midnight I sat down to reinstall windows, oh what fun. Did I mention I hate windows? Rob pointed out that I only have experience of 98SE which is “the worst OS that MS wrote”. To be honest I’m not conviced that the others are any better, I’ve used Win 3.1, 95, 98E. NT and 2000 and I’m certain I’ve crashed them all. Anyway, I digress. Following Rob’s sage like guidance I reinstalled Windows and suprisingly it worked. Unfortunatley it hasn’t found the drivers for my video card so I’m about to download them at uni now. I shall keep you updated….
February 19th, 2004 at 2:14 pm
Told ya it wouldn’t :-ppp
February 19th, 2004 at 2:57 pm
Rubbish - Win ME is by far the worst OS from MS, closely followed by Win 95 - 98SE was a golden beacon in comparison. I’m also a little confused why you bothered to deltree windows - why not either install over the top or do a quick format and install from the recovery CD? By that point you’ve lost the Registry so the other apps are already spooned.
February 19th, 2004 at 4:48 pm
Yeah I was misquoted there by the Ian’ster. I *did* actually say ME was the worst OS *ever* (not just from Microsoft) because it built on the already shite 98. Chris can back me up on my hatred of ME. On the other point, I actually considered 95 to be better in terms of stability purely because it had less features to go wrong…
May I also take this opportunity to point out that deltree’ing certainly isn’t my preferred method of reinstall and wasn’t my suggestion! I might also say that my first advice was not to do it… again, people can vouch that I’m not a well known advocate of reinstalling under any circumstances and would rather spend days fixing an obscure problem than going through the hassle of a clean install.
The best suggestion was to stick in another 128mb of ram and run 2K prof on it, since that would already support all the hardware and have all the drivers, and directly support multiple users, but in the absence of any more RAM, and the apparent urgency to have a working machine, 98se seemed the only option.
Also, at this time I was not informed at the existence of a recovery disk………..?
I think the diary entry has overstated my involvement in the aforementioned incident and I would like to take this opportunity to distance myself from the outcome lol