IT is Rocking, Baby !

Been some 5 years since I bought my comp and I've been upgrading device drivers and application dlls regularly. But then the accumulated Registry Junk had to go and the only option was FORMAT.

Spent nearly two days backing up all the data and the millions of Local Settings / App Data allover the place. (Hey, I got this wonderful price of Rs.105/- for 10 Moser CDs, just hope that data stays)

And then discovered that I didn't have a Boot disk...:-(( Oops ! the floppy drive wasn't working. I checked around for an XP bootable Disk, but no one around had a legal version :-)

While fooling around in the Tech Forums, noticed this thread on floppy drives (kick me, forgot to bookmark it )which said that the basic problem in any FP is wrong connection of the cables. So I opened the case, did one Ulta of the cable and viola, the FP worked.

So went ahead with the Formatting, FDISK and all that jazz. But, when I ran the XP setup,grrr.... the system said I can't do this from DOS. Stumped at 4 am...

Took a small walk to the terrace for a smoke and noticed my neighbour getting ready for a morning jog. Said a pleasant Hello and suddenly yelled at her. "do you have Windows '98? CD"? She looked at me like I was something wierd (I'm probably, asking somone at 4:30 am for a Bootable CD). Well, it so happened that she had one handy and so I headed back to Square A.

Prefect installation and upgrade to XP.

Been at it for 48 hours now and still at it, installing the various other softwares and applications. Speed is +vely better.

All in all, not the regular run-of-the-mill work.