Let’s See How Long This Lasts…
As of yesterday, I can finally say that I’m more or less back to normal as far as the computer’s concerned. There are still a few programs left to install and some settings that I have to look over again, but I’ll get around to those when I’ll need them, which should be over the next few days. What I won’t be installing at all are the games I don’t see myself getting back to in the next few months, namely Gothic II and Neverwinter Nights, plus of course Gothic 3, which I hadn’t even started, wanting to finish the second one first, if that will ever happen. Morrowind and Battle for Wesnoth aren’t installed yet either, as right now I’m sticking to Fate of the World and Baldur’s Gate, but I don’t rule out another attempt to get back to one or both of those when I’ll either finish one or, far more likely, get stuck in both of these.
It took me quite some time to get here because I kept changing my mind about installing Windows again on the repaired HDD last week, eventually starting it but then changing my mind again and formatting the partition. That left an invalid boot entry which was actually set as the default one, so I installed EasyBCD to get rid of it, but that made me unable to boot at all. A quick repair from the installation disk fixed the problem and everything seemed normal, but on Monday, when I finally started installing it again after the work on the window was done and I could move everything back in place, I found that, probably due to the changes made by EasyBCD, it didn’t see any drives anymore if I booted off the DVD. Over an hour of trying to work it out, another repair and a cleaning and repartitioning of the disk with diskpart, which I used for the first time, later, it finally worked and by the time I went to bed that night I finally had it installed and fully updated and had also managed to add the few programs that I needed right away.
Tuesday I took it easy, only installing a couple more programs and otherwise catching up on what I hadn’t done the day before, then yesterday I triple checked that I had moved everything back to the repaired HDD, used diskpart on the backup one too and actually managed to regain access to the 19 Gb that I previously couldn’t create a partition in normally, copied everything back on it afterwards, set up the daily backup script once again and installed a few more things, including the two games I mentioned above. And today I noticed that I had missed something when I edited the backup script, somehow missing it when I tested it yesterday as well, but now that I also took care of that, I should be good to go. Now let’s see how long this HDD will last…
While I’m writing, I guess I could also mention that I started reading The Last Wish. Didn’t exactly mean to, but I just picked it up on Sunday and I’ll probably finish it later today. Despite it being essentially a collection of short stories which are at least in part inspired by well-known fairy tales, so something I’d normally stay well away from, it has great moments and is actually a pretty good read overall, so I’ll be moving on to Blood of Elves next…
