Life of Rajesh

Well Guys At the start of this month I was short of blogging material and had lots of free time and now when I got so much things to blog about I dont have the time !Well still I took out some time from my busy schedule to update my blog

As you Guys Know My Holidays were going on and I was getting bugged sitting idle at home,then after coming back from my tour my Dad told me that he needs to buy 2 new PC’s for office and told me to get the configuration ready.The configuration was ready within a minute but I thought to myself WTF am I Doing?New PC for office is good par isme mera kya fyada? Then I thought that I will try and convince Dad to get a laptop for Office and then when the laptop arrives I will send my PC to office instead of the laptop.I tried my best but Dad did not agree.Then I thought of a MASTER PLAN.I decided since I will be getting a laptop after Class 10 I can wait for some more months and till then I can try to upgrade my current PC.The first thing after that I did was to go to my office and check the configuration of the 2 PC’s which were going to be replaced.

Out of the 2 PC’s,one was a P3 and the other was a P4 and used DDR RAM.So I told my Dad that instead of getting 2 new PC’s we can upgarde the P4 with 1Gb DDR RAM and get a new PC to replace the P3.Now I thought that I will get 2GB DDR RAM from Kingston and use them in my PC and the current RAM that I had will go in the P4.The D Day arrived and I went with my Dad to get the parts.Instead of getting a DVD writer with IDE interface I went with a DVD writer from ASUS which had a SATA Interface.Soon I reached home and the First thing I did was to take out the RAM from my PC and Swap it with the RAM that I got ! Part I of Mission Accomplished Successfully !

Now next Day I went to the Office with the new PC and assembled it ! The Comp Guy in My Office told me that the HDD being used in the P3 was new and I should use that Instead of the new HDD I got.Instead of arguing with him since I thought I can use the 2nd HDD and do RAID 0 ! Surprisng Entry of part II in the Misson which is successfully accomplished as well !

Now When I was going to attach the DVD writer the Office Guy told me that the P3 already had 2 DVD writers installed and I shall install it instead of using the new one.Again at this point I was gonna tell to him that new mobo’s only support 1 IDE port and the max devices supported per IDE port is 2 which will still create a bottleneck and so it will be better to use a SATA DVD writer but then again I changed my mind at the last moment and decided to agree with the computer guy and I told to myself that I can use the new SATA DVD writer in my current PC.I already had a DVD writer but the new one supported Lightscribe which was very handy for me and So when I left from the Office I had 2 new Components Upgarde for my Home PC ! I was feeling very proud of my evil brain and thinking what a genius I am,but soon things changed !

When I reached home and opened up my PC I saw that my Mobo only had 2 SATA ports and I could either plug in the HDD or the SATA DVD writer.I went with the HDD since RAID 0 was a much better option than the lightscribe DVD writer.I backup-ed all my Data onto different forms of storage media including 2 GB MicroSD card,2Gb Mini SD card,1 DVD and 5*2Gb Pen Drives !After that I remembered that I would need a custom XP CD with the RAID drivers since No OS can detect the RAID setup until and unless you provide them with the drivers.I made a XP CD and setup-ed RAID and in the process both my HDD’s were formatted and that means they had no Data on it.Then I put the XP CD in the tray and restartd my PC.I had already changed the boot media to my DVD Drive,and to my horror I got the Custom XP CD I had created was not bootable !After struggling for 2 days to create a Bootable XP CD,I had reached a point where my eyes had become red and my head was paining badly and i even tried to install Ubuntu but even Ubuntu failed to detect my RAID 0 and finally I had to drop the idea of doing RAID 0 and now I am just using the 2nd HDD for my torrents downloads and till now that drive is totally empty ! I never even reached the point of filling up 80Gb of my current 160Gb HDD,forget another 160Gb !

In the End I am using that HDD just for the sake of it and I have put the ASUS DVD writer for sale !Indeed a Master Plan which worked but still did not in the end !