I forgot how much a pain in the ass it was to start over with a new format, but I went ahead with it anyways. I believe that being in the woods for a couple days washed away some of my tech knowledge, because I made a little mistake and nearly a huge one. The little mistake was formatting the previous 5.1GB WD drive before taking it out (forgot to copy my favorites…damnit!) and the close call was leaving the 4.3GB Maxtor slave hooked up while partitioning and whatnot. I nearly erased all my 1.7GB of backup data!
Currently, I’m downloading IE 6 and then will queue Half-Life 1107 full patch and Paint Shop Pro 7. I would have had all the patches and editing applications, but my backup CD-RW got seriously corrupt (never again am I buying a Creative burner). I should have AIM and MSN installed later tomorrow.
I haven’t even gotten to really bench this new thing, either. All I have is the logged startup time from UT. It used to be about 60 seconds…but check this out:
I don’t know about Infiltration, yet…I can’t get it to run, probably cause I’ve got v428 instead of v436 (again, another patch that got corrupted). I wanna get HDTach again tomorrow and compare it with the scores I got 3 days ago. I’ll also have a few DCam pics, but not until I get PSP.
Also, I saved a screenshot from a few days ago of my MBM systray temperature display. It got suprisingly low; and I believe that it was the lowest I’ve ever recorded the North Bridge at and in summer, too! Take a look.
I can’t get enough of that Lost World ][ map in Quake3. Luckily, I did have the 1.29g patch locally.
Happy Partitions!
