He killed my computer!! T_T

[tanithryudo]

Wauugh!! *sobs* My dad killed my computer. T_T

I come home today to find that he installed another harddisk onto my computer. The problem? It moved the drive which I used, D drive, to E drive and inserted the new black drive in as the D drive. Stupid Windows. Stupid Microsoft. Why is this bad? ALL of my programs - from AIM to Matlab to Photoshop to my scanner - are all installed on that drive. So what happens when the root name for the drive is changed? Nothing works anymore. None of my shortcuts. Nada.

Well, at first it didn't seem so bad, right? I figure, obvious solution - move everything over to the new drive and all the path names will be the same again, right? Nope. Won't work. The new drive is a measly 2 gigs. I have almost 6 gigs just in my personal directory, which contains most of my school programs. That's not even taking into account Encarta or Adobe products or my scanner.

So I tell him to take the new drive out. He does. We restart. It goes into Windows... and dies. Freezes on the password screen.

So my dad decides to put in a bigger drive instead. That way, it's just like before and we'll have room to move my stuff over. Reboot. It freezes again.

So maybe it's Windows that's the problem. We try reinstalling Windows. It won't install. *strangles Windows CD-ROM*

Bwah!!! T_T My computer is dead!!! *sobs*

*sniff*

I'm on the other computer we have at home right now. I'll update this entry as things progress.

Update, 11:00 pm:

Dad tried installing the original small extra drive and the large one. He thought it might be a formatting error. Things actually loaded up that time, so he formatted the drive, rebooted, removed the small drive, rebooted, rebooted, rebooted... took a few tries before things went up again.

Well, I thought things were better, so I started copying program folders from my drive to the new one. I was wrong. The thing froze on me after I had copied about 200 MB's over. Thank goodness I didn't move it, only copied.

So we tried restarting. We tried putting the small drive back in. Didn't work. We removed both drives and started to reinstall Windows. The setup process actually worked this time... except then it crashed on the reboot, saying there was some missing file. Arg. *hits head against table*

Now I think Dad's trying to re-reinstall Windows... eep.


Update, Tuesday, 11 pm: Still... not... working... We got Windows to reinstall... sort of... except it refuses to configure the monitor right and keeps insisting that we're missing some file or whatever. All the time since I got home today has been reinstalling Windows again and again, and trying to find out what the heck it's trying to call at startup that's not there. Arg!!

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