Redshift

Okies, It wasn’t exactly the upgrade I wanted (I wanted Vista, but i’m holding off for a bit), but today I had to restore EVERYTHING on my pc’s main hard drive. I was installing random stuff last night, and apparently one of the installers wasn’t exactly….. trustworthy and it screwed up something with the startup files (D= oh noes!!!) so I couldn’t boot into XP, not even Safe Mode. So that kinda messed up my night tonight. Thank god for acer being prepared for this when people like me aren’t: Theres a hidden partition on the hard drive of this pc that contains hard drive image of the HD right after the factory installation. So I got into my Kubuntu live CD I have in case of emergencies, mounted my HD, backed up everything slightly important (like my saved games, since I can always re-install the games themselves later) to my iPod and secondary HD. Then I restarted (well.. I hit restart, then the pc hanged for 10 minutes and I ripped the cord out of the back and plugged it back in.) and pressed the magical combination of Alt+F10 at startup to make my pc go into restore mode. It didn’t take very long for the restore (about 4 minutes for all 6Gb of data) which surprised the hell out of me, considering the last time i restored a pc (last year) it took a good half an hour. Now my only problems are getting my wireless card to turn back on (Windows wont see it) and re-installing everything. But I’ll get all that done tonight.

Now I’m gonna run away into the dark depths of the internet to search for new copies of my software.