Reformatted

So what did I get when I turned on my computer this morning? A fucking blue screen about stop 0x000007b! Looks like that bastard VIA IDE miniport driver finally decided to blow up on me after I tried to remove it manually from the drivers folder last night. Fuck. I made sure my drive didn't die by running SpinRite and then proceeded to repair install.

It did jack shit to the problem.

So the dreaded c: partition needs to be reformated. I wanted to backup my document and settings folder first, but thought that would be too much trouble. I would have to take the drive up, plug it into my dad's machine and hope Windows won't scream about missing permissions. Overall, I think it went well. I reinstalled and updated all the key things: Office, SP2, drivers, Acrobat, Messenger, Paint Shop, media players, etc. Except it took forever to generate a key using a 350mhz machine. I thought things were going to be smooth until I realized I had lost all my Outlook contacts, my calendar, and my iTunes database!!!!!! Crap fuck shit!!! I thought I could recover my contacts and calendar by importing them from the files on my iPod but damn Outlook doesn't seem to like them. It imports them but nothing shows up!

Gah my beautiful iTunes... The biggest problem is that my hard drive and my iPod are completely out of sync. There are a lot songs that are only my iPod but not on my drive. I think I'll wait for my new computer to get setup before I try to consolidate my iTunes--pulling 13gb of music through a USB 1.1 pipe is NOT my idea of fun.