I choose red for today's post as this would symbolize my feelings with regard to this computer today!!

Storage room on my wimpy 40 GB hard drive became a scarce commodity. This was probably due to the huge number of pictures that I have stored there in the last year. So, the purchase of a new and larger drive was in order. From the unlikely source, Zip Zoom Fly, a 120 GB drive was ordered and in just a couple of days received in good order. Gads! I distinctly remember when I paid almost 10 times as much for a measly 10 MB - that's right 10 megas compared to 120 gigas! You do the math!

Next came the installation. Mechanically this was a no-brainer. I had downloaded a program that was supposed to migrate all my old stuff over to the new drive and at the same time make the new drive bootable. This seemed to be the way to go. The old drive has some age on it and is subject to failure at any time. I felt that it would be best to use it for non-essential backups and rely on the new drive for day to day work.

Everything went fine - until! Yes, until I switched drives to make the new drive the boot drive. It wouldn't boot, in fact the machine tells me it couldn't find any boot files at all! Three full days of monkeying around with this using all my meager brain power and with the help of a technically minded friend I decided on Plan B. I will continue to use the old drive to boot and relegate the new drive to storage.

This plan involves moving folder by folder all the Data, Photo, Music stuff over to separate partitions on the new drive. In the process, I removed a lot of old programs that are never used and did a general clean up. Sounds good doesn't it!

The process gave birth to several Registry problems which I hoped that Registry Mechanic could solve. There is still some garbage left over - an error message every time Outlook Express is run and some program trying to update itself via the Internet on each boot. I don't know what program it is but I think it is Norton's Ghost - Hmmm. That is an appropriate name.

I am now quite weary of the whole thing as you can probably tell.

Saturday morning Anne Marie and I went into the AgriCenter to hear a talk on Potting Plants for the Garden. The building where it was held was not heated and it was cold. The talk was not what we expected and we left after about an hour. Bummer! Anne Marie then treated me to one of my favorite lunches - a Wendy's Chicken Fillet with lettuce and mayo, small fries, small frosty!!