I write this post to you on a live copy of Knoppix Linux.
A few days ago, the parts for my long awaited new computer arrived. Intel Core 2 Quad, GeForce 8800GTX, and 4GB of DDR2 RAM in a slick case from Coolermaster. Everything went together problem free. However, in my excited stupor, as I was installing my old IDE hard drive (monetary constraints, long story) I heard a little *pink* as I was jamming the IDE cable in. "Hmm, that normally doesn't happen," I thought. Amidst an array of 42 erect golden pins, I saw one bent-double, injured in battle.
So there I was pacing around my bedroom anxiously with the hard drive I rendered useless in my hand, running through a list of all the important files I'd never see again. Suddenly, I got a spark of inspiration. I grabbed my mom's sewing kit and some wire cutters, jammed a sewing pin into the hole that my fallen soldier was assigned to, and clipped off as much as possible. It was worth a shot, I figured.
I kicked my brother off his computer and plugged my disk in as a slave. The five extra minutes it took Windows to load were probably the most nerve racking of my young life. Finally, a little bubble popped up, singing its sweet words to me: "Found new hardware."
Needless to say, I'm currently running Partition Magic on my brother's computer cloning the contents of my old disk onto a brand new hard drive. A brand new SATA hard drive.
I can think of several less painful things than running Vista, like getting a lobotomy. I've currently got it loaded up with XP Pro, and I most likely will keep that until SP1 for Vista comes out. Now to search for DirectX 10 hacked for XP