Clusterf*** to Vista
With a lot of shame and a lot of sadness I must convey my heartfelt sympathies on the demise of Windows Vista on my System. The spawn of evil, the crux and root of all that is bad, Vista killed my system, and took with it, one of my precious HDDs.
The saga begins on a quiet Friday evening when I installed Vista on my server, so that I could enjoy the stupid glass effects. I had previously installed Vista on my main system, but just felt so dirty and violated that I went back to OS X. Life was great and birds were chirping outside. I could feel the warmth of Steve Jobs’ smile raining down on me.
The server apparently could not take it. The next morning when I woke up, to my chagrin and my utter disappointment (at the same time), one of my array of 9 disks was making whirr and click, whirr and click noises. I was just flabbergasted! OH NO I thought what about my Data, OH NO, what if it is my 300 gigs of Movies, most irreplaceable, or my 500 Gigs of Series etc etc… the victim in the end was just the series. My data is safe. The culprit— VISTA! The constant spin up and spin downs, which my common sense told me, were detrimental to the HDD’s life span, finally caused the HDD to break. The worst part is, that it was originally an external HDD, which I had cannibalized and made internal, the warranty is null and voided.
I was just sick of this stuff. That is when I decided that it was high time to take some action. And some action I did take. I cannibalized the server and assembled my main computer in the chieftec design, and made the server redundant. Three of the HDDs made it into the OS X machine and the rest will be made external USB 2.0 HDDs when the time and money so permit.
Settings were a bitch on my OS X, and it took me a LONG time to set up a combination of IDE and S-ATA and S-ATA II drives to work together harmoniously. In the end I have succeeded, and here I am on my C2D machine, with 1,4 TB of storage at my disposal, all formatted in HFS and waiting for data. I have started on the road, the arduous road to the recovery of my series, and though it shall take long, I am not fazed.