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swestrupI think I've got this dang compooter thing working at last. I've managed to restore my main C: drive and I appear to have all of my files and programs intact. The only thing I don't have is all of my microsoft updates, which I am downloading now (I have to upgrade to at least SP1 before I can finish restoring my files, since that's when they introduced support for >137GB drives.)
So, I'm going to let the machine work away at downloading and upgrading stuff for a while, and check back in 90 minutes or so. If that all goes well, then I'll see about installing the rest of my RAM and finally doing the upgrade to SP2.
For now though, I'm quite happy its working as well as it is. Even if everything tanks when I go SP2, I now know what I have to do to get the system back to this state, and it would only take a couple of hours from a blank drive.
So, I'm going to let the machine work away at downloading and upgrading stuff for a while, and check back in 90 minutes or so. If that all goes well, then I'll see about installing the rest of my RAM and finally doing the upgrade to SP2.
For now though, I'm quite happy its working as well as it is. Even if everything tanks when I go SP2, I now know what I have to do to get the system back to this state, and it would only take a couple of hours from a blank drive.
