File Moving
Posted: Sun 23 October, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts Leave a comment »Note to self : Even using a portable hard-drive, moving 40Gb of music files along with 10Gb of photos takes a long long time.
Although it’d almost certainly take longer to do over the network, so I suppose that’s a silver lining to this cloud…
Serial ATA
Posted: Sun 23 October, 2005 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Hmm, bugger. The Shuttle box now works and instals the relevant drivers etc., but still comes up with an error about “failing to format/partition the SATA drive” which is a bit of a cunt, as I’m only using the one drive.
I’m going to leave it ’til later, or even tomorrow, in order to have another go at it. It’s going to be one of those set ups, I think. Grrrr.
Shuttle
Posted: Sun 23 October, 2005 Filed under: Geeky 2 Comments »Well, the new PC got assembled pretty easily.
However, installing the OS is a nightmare. First of all, I forgot (well, didn’t think I needed) the floppy drive. OK, I’ve got one in the old PC. Not ideal, but it’ll do. Install the drivers for the SATA drive – not so easy. Despite it being a board for a 64bit processor, they haven’t included the drivers for XP64 – you’d kind of think that was a logical addition, but no.
So it’s back online with the old PC, having swapped the floppy drive back, so I can write the drivers to floppy, then move the floppy drive over to the Shuttle box and give that a thrash.
I’m in the process of downloading those drivers now. I’m sure there’ll be other ones I need to (particularly networking etc.) so I may get those at the same time – seems like a smart move. With luck though I won’t have to install those ’til I’ve got some USB support and the main bit of the OS is installed.
That’d make life easier, anyway. In the meantime, I’m wondering if XP64 was the best option – maybe I should’ve just gone with XP Pro. We’ll see…