I pride myself in taking lots of measures to backup my data on my systems. I have storage drives setup with mirrored pairs or with backups taken to external drives, and every morning a disk image backup runs on my laptop and main machine. Every time I test the system image backup by restoring the image to a spare hard drive, it runs no problem. So, in a worst case scenario of my hard drive dying, a restore should be as simple as a new windows install, setup a few drivers, install my backup software, and restore to a hard drive.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Anytime I actually need a backup, my system fights me every fucking step of the way.
So, this morning, I wake up, turn on my computer, check a few things on facebook, and poof.....computer shuts off.
WHAT! THE! FUCK!!!!!!!!
No warning? No reason? Nothing?
This is rather annoying due to the nature of solid state drives. It seems that a major design flaw of the solid state drive is that, if your system is powered off improperly, the drive gets stuck in a state of not being recognizable until it power cycles, which requires booting into the bios for a fucking half hour, restarting, and then setting it as the boot device again.
So I do this, and I keep getting fucking errors about there being no boot device. What in the hell, computer, it's right fucking there, I see it, you see it, the bios sees it, JUST FUCKING BOOT TO IT!!!!!
So, ok, I grab one of my many spare 500GB laptop hard drives off the shelf, take it out of the foil pack, throw it into my S-ATA dock, and boot to my windows 7 install disk and do a new install to it.
Now then, I recently did a new install to my old broadcast machine to make an audio capture machine temporarily, and that motherboard by Asus just fucking works. New windows install, plug and play network card, it works.
Gigabyte, on the other hand, is one of these neanderfucks that can't be bothered to fucking put a FUCKING PLUG AND PLAY NETWORK ADAPTER ON THE MOTHERBOARD!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK?????
Ok, ok, no biggie.....just need to reformat my solid state drive (after taking a look at the data and grabbing an extra backup of profile info), and restore the image from my external USB drive.
Except....the externals don't show up.....because it FUCKING NEEDS FUCKING USB DRIVERS AS FUCKING WELL!!!!!
COME ON, GIGABYTE, GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!!!!!
WHATEVER FUCKING HAPPENED TO THE FUCKING CONCEPT OF FUCKING PLUG AND PLAY????? IT'S FUCKING 2015 ALREADY, WHY AM I STILL SEARCHING ONLINE FOR FUCKING DRIVERS EVERY FUCKING TIME I NEED TO FUCKING DO A FUCKING BACKUP RESTORATION?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Ok, ok....that's why I have a laptop, so I find my network driver, get my new install on the network, do a quick firefox install, grab my usb drivers, and have my external drives.
But, I notice....what the hell, that doesn't look right? When looking at my drives, I see the new windows install is only one partition on the new drive I setup. It didn't setup a system partition. Why now of all times would windows 7 install differently from every other fucking time I've ever installed it? You point the windows 7 install to a blank unpartitioned unformatted drive, and every time, EVERY TIME I've ever done this, it creates a 100MB system partition, and then a partition on the rest of the drive for the windows install. But not this time. Which worries me a little.....
....but, ok, lets try this, so I backup my profile data on the solid state drive, WHICH IS FUCKING SHOWING UP PERFECTLY FINE, WITH ALL DATA INTACT, AND PERFECTLY BROWSABLE, BUT WON'T FUCKING BOOT UP FOR NO FUCKING REASON, AND WINDOWS 7 REPAIR CAN'T SEEM TO FUCKING FIX A FUCKING FINE INSTALLATION, but whatever, I have my backup....so, I go to delete my partitions off the solid state drive to give myself a clean slate to restore yesterday morning's backup to, and.....IT FUCKING WON'T LET ME DELETE THE SYSTEM PARTITION FROM THE DRIVE!!!!
WHAT!!!!!
THE!!!!!
FUCK?!?!?!?!?!?!
YOU MEAN WHEN I TOLD YOU TO DO A FUCKING CLEAN FUCKING INSTALL TO THE FUCKING NEW FUCKING HARD DRIVE, YOU FUCKING ACTUALLY TIED IN THE SOLID STATE DRIVE, THAT YOU DON'T FUCKING WANT TO FUCKING BOOT TO, INTO THE FUCKING SETUP OF THIS NEW FUCKING WINDOWS 7 FUCKING INSTALL????? THUS MAKING IT COMPLETELY USELESS WITHOUT THE FUCKING DRIVE THAT'S GIVING ME FUCKING PROBLEMS THAT I FUCKING WANT TO INSTALL TO?????
WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD YOU FUCKING DO THAT????
WHY?????
WHY, IN WHAT UNIVERSE, DOES IT FUCKING MAKE SENSE TO FUCKING INVOLVE A DRIVE I DIDN'T INDICATE IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT TO USE, IN A FUCKING NEW WINDOWS 7 INSTALL??????
WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS NEW FANGLED BIOS BULLSHIT TRYING TO PULL WITH FUCKING BULLSHIT TACTICS LIKE THIS????????
So, now, I have to actually fucking remove the fucking drive from the tower, just to ensure the computer does use the drive THAT I DIDN'T TELL IT TO USE AT ALL IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE!!!!!
And of course, the new windows 7 install? Fucking useless without that drive attached, even though the installation partition is right there, windows 7 repair won't even fucking look at that partition to fix it to startup to it, so now i have to, yet again, do another fucking brand new windows 7 install, new drivers install, just to fucking run a fucking restore.
WHAT IN THE HELL DID I GAIN WITH WHATEVER FUCKING NEW FANGLED BIOS BULLSHIT THIS THING USES, THAT MAKES IT WORTH THE FUCKING TROUBLE THAT COMES FROM IT NOT JUST FUCKING DOING A NEW INSTALL ON THE NEW DRIVE, AND LEAVING EVERY THING ELSE THE FUCK ALONE??????
God, every time they change something in technology, it creates more trouble than it's worth. Fucking bullshit.....can't even do a fucking simple hard drive restore without the system fighting me every fucking step of the way.
FUCK YOU GIGABYTE, FUCK YOU MICROSOFT, FUCK YOU FYNDIR (JUST BECAUSE), FUCK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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