Friday, October 17, 2008

The un-Midas touch

Well i am making progress, sort of. I could not reinstall Windows on my desktop. Why you ask I still don't know. Was able to boot Ubuntu off the CD and at least confirmed some functionality of the hardware. But all the hard drives were locked out. This was not good; I have a good 150 Gigs of 'data' on one of those drives that I couldn't even think about trying to recollect.

Well after beating my head on a table for a while, I have figured some stuff out. My 80 gig IDE drive is scrap metal. The 40 gig and 250 gig SATA drives are fine. I have installed Ubuntu on the 40 gig drive and it boots normally and seems stable. Windows although finished the initial install will not boot. I still am clueless about that. The data on the 250 gig drive is intacted and useable. phew!!!!!

Second problem, Ipod does not play well with Linux. iTunes was never meant to be installed in Linux even through a virtial machine. There are some open source programs that should be able to connect and manage the iPod but still require a little shoehorning to get to work. I was playing with that while I was trying to get the desptop working, and of course I did something wrong and now my laptop will not boot!!! :'(

I think I have the magical ablity to take perfectly good working hardware and make it completely hosed, or maybe i am finally becoming a proper Linux user ;)

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