Aim high, Aim far

September 17th, 2009  |  Published in Blog

While walking home from breakfast, I held a sweet wrapper and aimed it towards a dustbin. I told myself, “aim high, aim far”. I launched it, and whoops! Forgot to factor in the wind! Phailed.

I just did a fresh install of Win XP.

It took 60 minutes to do a complete format of my 300GB partition. Some say its better, and gives protection to the disk to be error free. Lets see how it goes.

T- 0:00 Formatting Complete
T- 0:01 Copy basic files
T- 3:12 Restart computer
T- 4:00 Approx. 39 minute screen
T- 9:25 Approx. 33 minutes. Finished installing devices
T- 10:05 Approx 30 minutes. Done installing network
T- 11:25 Approx 24 minutes. Copying files
T- 12:08 Approx 22 minutes. Completing install
T- 13:45 Approx 18 minutes. Installed start menu items
T- 15:15 Approx 9 minutes. Registering components
T- 16:50 Approx 1 minute. Saving settings
T- 17:50 First boot screen appear, windows logo + Please wait
T- 18:55 Desktop appear

Just for reference, its now T-45 minutes and my graphic driver is on the way. I think it’ll be another 1 hour before its really usable. Its funny to note that in Windows 7, Microsoft really asks its users to prepare at least 20-24 hours for a complete upgrade from Vista!!!!!

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