Attempting to reinstall my OS and Reformat....
Jelenedra:
Ran into a nasty, nasty over the weekend and my virus cleanups can't get it all. Soooo since my pc is strictly a gaming PC with no personal info or anything saved on it other than husband's wrestling promo pics. I was just going to reinstall windows and reformat the harddrive to clear up the nasty thing that liked to mascarade as a windows security alert.
Problem number one: Alienware (where I got my pc, and am slightly regretting) gave me a faulty factory settings respawn disc. I put it in and suddenly my pc tries to import photos to Fotomat.
Okay whatever, I have all my driver cds and all that so I'll just do a clean wipe and not worry about factory settings. So I pull out my Windows Recovery CD they gave me.
No Window product serial number anywhere on the CD. Still okay, I found the product key by going through my paper work.
Running Windows XP setup and I come across problems, the setup is asking me for SCSI and some other things with initials. Now, I like to pretend that I'm computer savvy. But when I come across new things, I kinda need things color coded and labelled. For the life me, nothing I can find within the items I got from Alienware mention SCSI ANYWHERE.
When I try to make setup look for itself, it fails to find it. The only floppy disc I got from Alienware says SATA Disc. Is this the magical floppy I need that has all the things Windows setup wants?
Why couldn't things happen automagically? All the stupid nasties I get are all automagic. Why can't the things I NEED to work right away with no direction of me, DON'T?
Anyways, feel free to point and laugh, but help would be appreciated. Anything to avoid the PC Repair shop. I don't really feel right paying $90 for a reinstall and a reformat.
J. M. Pescado:
Ignore the SCSI thing, that's just asking if you need some custom driver, but you probably don't.
Jelenedra:
Well, the first time I tried to skip it, it said it couldn't find the blah blah and exited setup.
J. M. Pescado:
OKay, I have to ask...but this has been bugging me for some time.
What the heck is your avatar about?
Jelenedra:
Fanart.
It's supposed to be Atton and The Exile from KOTOR II by Aimo.
Full version of it:
http://aimostudio.com/gallery/images/072.jpg
I resized a bunch of her stuff to over-ride the default Sim Paintings. This one was one of my favs and it fit as an avatar, so I used it. =p
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