Not all Clippy. Just had to race off to the office and deal with 1,679 queries over the counter, closely followed by 1,898 phone callz. No Ztorage Foruming for lunch either. I don't exactly spot anything shiny, but it was a beautiful day and when Kristi mentioned the magic words "shop" and "ice cream" ... that ws lunch.
Then a busy afternoon to match. I didn't get to do anything in between those other thingz bar (a) read six replies here very quickly before work in the morning, (b) notice the mention of Drive Copy and remember that I always used to like using that on back in ... version 2.0 days, I think it was - about 1996 because it had the capacity to deal with FAT32 in theory but couldn't do it in practice but it didn't really matter because nobody used FAT32 to speak of, (c) take a look via Google at the current version of Drive Copy (because last time I used Ghost it was very unfriendly and time conzuming and you had to frig about with special boot discs and two different EXEs, one to read and one to write), (d) figure that $49.95 US was justifiable seeing as we are getting more ztupid people running Windowz XP to deal with and my favourite plain vanilla drag and drop no-special-software-required method doesn't work with the NT-based flavours of Windowz, (e) chech to make sure that, seeing I waz about to spend $100 of Tannin'z money, it really
did do XP and discover that it does not, (f) decide not to buy Drive Copy after all, (g) go searching round the workshop to see what sort of Ghost versions were lying around on OEM disks, (h) find one on an Epox disc saying it was Version 7.0 (from memory, might have been some other number - I'm better at bananas than numbers), (i) read the documentation, skipping all the big wordz, (j) set the machine up ready for the transfer and think about the possibility that I might have trouble with service packs (as per Fugshui's comment), (k) fire it up and discover that I needed a password to log on as admin, (l) call the government department that owns it and get the password, (j) decided that it was probably SP 6 anyway (for no particular reason, just that I couldn't remember how to tell and I felt lucky), (m) deal with the afforementioned 1,679 queries and 1,898 phone callz,
have ice cream for lunch, (o) deal with a mere 579 enquiries and 493 phone callz after lunch (thinking fondly of shiny things and ice cream all the time), (p) answer phone call #494, which was from the department who owns the machine asking if it was ready yet, (q) boot off floppy and figure out from the interface that Ghost 7 is so vastly improved over those stupid, difficult earlier versions I used last that this would be a piece of cake, (r) tell it to clone the exiting structure over to the new drive more or less unchanged - a 2GB FAT boot partition and a 2GB NTFS data partition became a 4GB, 64k sector FAT partition and a larger data partition on the 20GB drive, (s) wonder if I could get the "c" partition any bigger and decide that, short of a reinstall, I couldn't and 4GB would have to do, (t) tell it to copy, (u) put the kettle on for a well-earned cup of tea, (v) glance at the machine five minutes later and discover that it had finished already, (w) make the tea, (x) swap the drives over,
bolt the lid on, and (z) drink the tea.
Pretty normal day, really.
