Fuck Computers!
I'm finally getting my home computer put back together after it was nearly taken out of commission. For background, it's an Apple iMac with Intel guts. Here's the story:
- Installed the latest OS update- 10.6.3
- Computer fails to restart after update
- At least I had dual-booting set up and could load up Windows
- I'm practically out of hard drive space
- Could maybe repair-install OS X, but why bother with no disk space
- One terabyte drive gets ordered
- Wow, Apple are really being dicks, might as well switch back to Windows7 as primary since it's so good.
- Try to generate a key via my work MSDN account. Fail.
- Account is borked. Can't seem to get anyone to fix it.
- Try to find a legit copy of Win7 without paying $300
- Found a source!
- Perform surgery on the iMac. They really cram things in there tight.
- Pop in the Win7 disc... PC Load Letter-- WTF!?
- Apple 32bit firmware doesn't like 64bit Windows installer
- Burn a special copy of the DVD with just the right filesystem settings
- Windows installer runs happily now and I can sit down at a functional desktop
- Track down a few oddball drivers and torrent the Apple drivers because you can't just download them even though they are useless unless you already have a Mac
- Begin the arduous process of reinstalling applications
- Gotta put the old drive in another computer on the network so I can copy files
- Don't forget to install the software needed to allow Windows to read HFS volumes
- Get fussy about all those little preferences that make the OS feel like home