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It started out good, but as usual... 
13th-Dec-2005 07:24 pm
Cheshire
...I feel like a failure.

When Cutter's computer got a nasty virus a month or two ago I re-installed windows on the partioned drive of his harddisk so that we could bypass the infected version. The only thing is that the partitioned drive is very small and he wants to have full access to his harddrive again.

Today I installed a nice new video card so he can play the really cool pc games that are out now and that went perfectly, but I can't delete the partioned drive without removing his files and I can't uninstall the previous version of xp off of the main drive because the virus made it impossible. I mean, I'm trying really hard and I've been able to do a lot more than most. Installing a new graphics card isn't rocket scientist but most people I know wouldn't even know which card to switch out or have a clue how to create/delete a partioned drive to bypass infected files.

He's just so down right now and I feel like it's my fault because I can't fix it. We were on our way to having a great day playing video games and watching movies and having pizza and drinking for the first time in awhile but now everything just feels... like I broke it.
Comments 
14th-Dec-2005 10:01 am (UTC)
Move the files to somewhere else :\ USB flash drives, CD's, whatnot, and then format the whole thing.
14th-Dec-2005 02:40 pm (UTC)
I want to do that but he doesn't want to erase all the programs and files and have to re-install it all and whatnot. Plus it would take forever to move all those files onto flashdrives or cd's, he's got about 75 gigs of stuff on there. *sigh* Thanks for the suggestion though, I'm up to try almost anything.
14th-Dec-2005 05:00 pm (UTC)
Well, you're going to have to do it anyways to get rid of the virus, unless you buy some fancy super anti-virus.

What virus is it?
16th-Dec-2005 01:13 am (UTC)
Not a clue. But we talked about it so we're going to wipe the harddrive and backup everything he wants to keep on a portable harddrive and then just re-install everything. SOOOOOO much easier that way!
19th-Dec-2005 07:03 pm (UTC)
you are anything but a failure, dear.

keep that chin up!

i love you.

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