One thing after another repeatedly ad nauseum. Last night's was the kicker.
Finished building a computer for a friend who's sister desperately needs one for college and can't afford it. (21 years old, 2 kids under the age of 4, husband who barely makes enough to feed, clothe, and house, and she's startig school to become a LPN to help out. Kudos to her.) So I put together an old 950 AMD Athlon for her. Husband used to use it.
We got it together, then started installing XP Home on it. No go. "Unmountable Boot Volume." Shit.
Tried anoth hard dreive. Same thing. Again, another drive. Same thing. Goddammit!
So I finally just took the slave drive out of my machine and stuck it in there and got rid of the stuff that she wouldn't need...like content.
Booted up, worked beautifully. Sent it to her, complete with monitor, printer, all cables and cords, mouse and keyboard. Basically I gave her a full system for free.
Cool deal. I've been in that position of needing a machine before, so I kinda like to "pay it forward" when I can.
Come back home last night after delivering computer, turn mine on to get my articles finished and sent, and lo and behold, my computer demands that I activate Windows. WTF? Okay, cool, go activate. Windows then tells me that I have activated this copy of Windows too many times. Then it shuts down. Now my computer doesn't even turn on. Master drive is properly placed.
Everything is as it shoudl be save for the fact that I can't turn the fuckig thing on.
What's really a pisser is the copy of Windows I'm using WAS JUST BOUGHT FROM STAPLES YESTERFUCKINDAY!
Microsuck just killed my hard drive, but I bought that fucking copy yesterday. Hang on folks, someone's geting a serious earful from me today!
