{"id":179,"date":"2008-01-09T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:59:10","slug":"teacher-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Teacher, teacher…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all seemed so easy.<\/p>\n

I was going to clone the contents of my son’s hard drive to a new, larger hard drive, and then set him up with a <\/a>newer computer. I have software that will deal with that. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n

I got Maxtor MaxBlast with my newest hard drive, and it offered to let me upgrade to Acronis TrueImage at an attractive price. So I took them up on that. Unfortunately, I can’t install TrueImage because it’s an upgrade copy and it keeps asking me for the serial number of the previous version, and MaxBlast has no serial number. I emailed Acronis about this two days ago and have only got their form “we got your email” reply.<\/p>\n

I tried using the MaxBlast software on the computer I was trying to refurbish, but it says it won’t run without a Maxtor or Seagate drive present. Um… there were three drives in the computer at the time–a WD, a Maxtor, and a Seagate. *BZZZT!*<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was all moot anyway, because my son’s original hard drive refused to be moved. If I tried it in the other computer it promptly lost its mind and I got all kinds of scary looking “missing boot device” messages on the Blue Screen of Death.<\/p>\n

So I gave up and put everything back together in his room… and that’s when the fun started.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden Windows 2000 was asking for a logon password when it never had before. My son didn’t remember his password. Logging in as Administrator did no good. So, OK, I’ll try running the Windows 2000 CD and see if I can repair the installation.<\/p>\n

Uh…. now the BIOS wants a password too? Aiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!!! Sure am glad my son had long since left for work.<\/p>\n

In the end, I took my own advice<\/a> and learned a LOT of new things today. Like how to reset a CMOS password, which is something I already knew how to do in theory but had never tried. Till tonight. And how to get past a Windows password, too, although I haven’t actually done that yet. Oh my, the internet is my friend.<\/p>\n

I think, all in all, I’m going to just let things be for the moment and tackle the rest of that project tomorrow. I love fiddling with computers but I’m not about to push my luck.<\/p>\n

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