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After repeated copying, formatting, recopying, reloading frustrating bullshit......
Windows was screwing me. WD's Datalifeguard was doing a great job of copying the contents of the old hard drive to the new one, but when I tried to boot using the new hard drive, Windows was re-assigning my drive letters and the boot directory was not being properly read.
I discovered this when, out of frustration, I decided to reload XP on top of the existing program. I got the system to boot, but none of my programs or drivers would load. Windows relabled the harddrive a "E:" while the old drive was "F:"! I tried logging into my c: drive and manually changing the drive letter, but found that the C: drive OS still called it the "F:" drive! When I logged onto that drive, Windows labeled it "E:" and would not le me re-label it because it was my boot disc. AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
So, this weekend, I said "Fuck this shit!" and formatted and reloaded EVERYTHING! Now my system has but one OS, on my 20g drive and one data disc, my new 40g drive. My old 40g is still available and functional so that I can retrieve the files on it as I need them (I unplug my CD-RW and plug in the hard drive).
PS: One little adventure, just to make sure my blood pressure stays stratospheric: While reloading my software, I discovered that my SBC-Yahoo install CD was cracked! How the HELL does that happen??? Luckily, a friend of mine works for SBC in their DSL installation department. Me sported me a fresh disc, and here I am, back on TFP!
Thanks for all of the help, everyone!
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"Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard
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