Hey, kids! Have about 6 hours that you wish you could burn up with a pointless task? Here's a fun game you can play with any windows computer! Try this:
- Put a bunch of important data onto a 5 year old disk drive.
- Have the disk drive crash. (The easiest way to accomplish this is to shake it, or you can just wait.)
- Install a second disk into the machine in the hopes of recovering the data.
- Install Windows XP Pro.
- Note that windows will helpfully designate the new drive as "E:", leaving the dead drive as "C:". Windows will then be installed onto "E:" without your consent or control.
- Frantically copy as much data from the dead "C:" drive as you can.
- Note that the machine seems to freeze randomly while the bad drive is installed.
- Remove the bad drive and reboot.
- Now note that your machine has no C drive.
- (Ever wondered if Windows and all of its applications assume the presence of a C drive, and pretty much don't work at all if you don't have one? Here's a hint: YES.)
- Try to change the E drive letter to C so that things work correctly.
- Reboot.
- Note that your new drive no longer works at all, and the OS must be reinstalled.
- Start over at step 1.
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