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The Mad Monk
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of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:36
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Okay, the most recent outrage, computer-wise:
I found the recovery CD for my now five-year-old computer, and decided to try doing a fresh install on the currently-useless bootable partition on my backup hard drive. Then, I'll use the fresh install on the backup to move the non-corrupted registry from it's current location on the main drive to a location where it can actually be used.
I disconnect my main drive, set the backup to master, set the CD-rom to bootable, put the recovery CD in the CD-rom, cross my fingers, and turn it on.
It boots, good.
The CD autostarts, and brings up the recovery screen, good.
I tell it to just re-install windows; it tells me it will wipe the entire partition, which seems a little odd (do they always do that?), but it's a mostly blank partition on a backup drive, so I'm not bothered, and I give it the go ahead.
It loads everything, reboots, and starts the install -- great!
I discover that when it says "only install the operating system", it means "the operating system, plus MSN, AOL, Earthlink, and Compuserve"; I'm glad I didn't use the "restore to factory default" option.
Everthing finishes up, it brings up the legal agreement, and asks for the product code on the certificate of authenticity...
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FOUND IT!
I enter the code.
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It's too short.
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