26th December 2005, 3:42 PM
And I got that GCN Fire Emblem, that epic game of EPIC called Shadow of the Collosus, a certain Wild World, Trace Memory, (and don't ask to play them, because my mom has effectively confiscated both, I had this feeling if she ever had a chance to play Animal Crossing she'd become an addict...). I also got Civilization IV, Pirates! (Live the Life!) and some other stuff.
Also, I destroyed the partition record of my hard drive attempting to return the space I allocated to a Linux partition to my Windows XP partition (so I could actually install my new PC games). My computer froze up in the middle of the procedure for reasons I'm not entirely sure of (I'll figure that out in a bit, I hope) and that forced me to reset. And, as I feared, the only part that remained usable on my hard drive was the boot sector. So, I got the chance to pick which OS I wanted to not find.
It's alright though. I actually managed to restore my partition table to the way it was before. Now, I did manage to format my linux partition before the lockup, so that's gone, but at least I'm typing at you once again and all my data is safe (backups are for those that actually have that capability, though I think pretty soon I may invest in something of the sort, there may be something I'm just not able to repair on my own in the future...). The next step is to once again try to assign the now completely empty space on the HD to my partition so I can once again have full use of the drive under Windows.
Oh and, keep in mind I had no problem just ditching Linux because I didn't really have anything there I care about. Just some lost shortcuts in Mozilla... It was a nice experiment anyway. I suppose I'll eventually put Linux back on in the future when I get another hard drive.
Also, I destroyed the partition record of my hard drive attempting to return the space I allocated to a Linux partition to my Windows XP partition (so I could actually install my new PC games). My computer froze up in the middle of the procedure for reasons I'm not entirely sure of (I'll figure that out in a bit, I hope) and that forced me to reset. And, as I feared, the only part that remained usable on my hard drive was the boot sector. So, I got the chance to pick which OS I wanted to not find.
It's alright though. I actually managed to restore my partition table to the way it was before. Now, I did manage to format my linux partition before the lockup, so that's gone, but at least I'm typing at you once again and all my data is safe (backups are for those that actually have that capability, though I think pretty soon I may invest in something of the sort, there may be something I'm just not able to repair on my own in the future...). The next step is to once again try to assign the now completely empty space on the HD to my partition so I can once again have full use of the drive under Windows.
Oh and, keep in mind I had no problem just ditching Linux because I didn't really have anything there I care about. Just some lost shortcuts in Mozilla... It was a nice experiment anyway. I suppose I'll eventually put Linux back on in the future when I get another hard drive.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)