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[cabbitzilla]

Well, Ghost refused to read the drive, dammit. It's been put back into 'hutch and nursed back to life again. Since I have a four day weekend this go round I'll take a day and do the full reinstall/patch process and get it upright properly again. I transferred the DSL info to this laptop, so in theory I won't be cut off from the world. In theory. At the moment I'm at a friend's place, but will be back home tomorrow. And then the fun begins.

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[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

good luck with that. aren't computers just wonderful?

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

Just f'ing wonderful, they are. :/

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

and here I am, pursuing a degree in Information Technology. I've already had my share of frustrations.

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

Frustrated post-stroke quasi-retired systems engineer here; once upon a time I was the lead hardware tech for a community college. Oh, how the mighty has fallen. :/

At the moment I've got the laptop up and running as a gateway, hard wired into the DSL modem. The wireless in said laptop is currently running as an AP... the G3 Mac and the now dead Hutch are plugged into the DLink AP. A kludge, but a working one. Originally Hutch was the gateway, with the internal NIC wired to the Synoptics switch, with the G3 and Laptop flowing in from the outside. It took a bit of fiddling but seems to be working relatively well at the moment.

The original drive is crashed; now when it's powered you can -hear- the grind from inside it. *shudder* I got most of the essentials off of it, at least. I located a spare drive, installed it, and was crushed when it refused to power up at all. A much newer Western Digital 80gb unit was scored this morning, so now the reinstall can proceed.

I really am going crazy here. Good practice, though, and it makes me -think-, which can't help but be a good thing, right?

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

And.... the 80gb Western Digital is also dead. I've tried it against two -working- systems to verify and it's dead everywhere. I'm NOT a very happy cabbit right now, but money's too tight to just order a new 300 or so and have it express shipped here. Insane am I going.

Hutch (soon to be Cave) is/was a WinXP Pro SP2 box. It was also my primary machine, which makes it a pain to get anything besides WoW and email a royal pain in the arse. Buried on the secondary drives of Hutch is 60% of my Doctor Who archive... that alone makes me a bit crazed about getting the mac hine back upright. I'm just not having a good month, you know?

*wry chuckle* And I generally use Ellie; I know about a dozen Liz's and it helps me keep it all straight. :p

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

I've since done an inventory. Pertwee, Baker, Davidson, Baker (Colin), Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures are on the external drive and are safe. Hartnel, Troughton and Eccleston are on the secondary internal drive... in theory they're safe as well. McCoy I have on CDs, as well as Tenant's first two years.The only things lost at this point are the McGann TV movie, the two Christopher Lee knockoffs, and the current season's eps I'd already gotten my hands on. It's nowhere near as catastrophic as I'd feared.

A hopefully working 80gb drive is enroute here via a friend... hopefully in about an hour I can actually start the project. This is the longest 'build towards rebuild' I've ever had to wrestle with.