Say hello to my little friend... or not.
Jan. 30th, 2007 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbandruidSo we were at Office Despot last weekend (yes, that's what we call it) and in the clearance aisle I found a 256mb jump drive for $9.99. So I bought it, took it home, played around with it. It took a little work to figure out the ins and outs- their idea of instructions was "plug it into the USB port"- but I got a bunch of stuff copied from Anna. Decided I'd try to move said files to Morden, that being most of the reason I bought the jump drive.
Morden doesn't want to play. He doesn't recognize the drive, and when I tried to install a driver it seemed to want off Mom's system software discs, it gave me all sorts of crazy errors. So today I went to the manufacturer's site for the jump drive, dug around their FAQs till I found one that told me which file to download to get their drive to talk to Morden and ME. Downloaded said file. Ran it as instructed.
Got the blue screen of death three or four times, and the last one it made me bring Morden up in safe mode. Blah. So I got that sorted out, and figured I'd plug in the drive to see if it worked.
Plug in drive. Blue screen of death. "Pres 'enter' to return or 'cntrl-alt-delete' to restart your computer." Yeah, yeah, and a lovely fucking day to you, too, Morden.
Tried to run the "Add New Hardware" thingy again. Blue screen of death. "Press enter to return..."
Hmm. Okay. Went back to the site, had another poke around, and I think I know what Morden's beef is (this time.) But still.
Fer cryin' out loud, all I want to do is finish the Alias smut I started writing yesterday. (Now you see why it got done on the back of the printout of the beginning, pre-smut parts, and a bunch of notebook pages.)
Morden doesn't want to play. He doesn't recognize the drive, and when I tried to install a driver it seemed to want off Mom's system software discs, it gave me all sorts of crazy errors. So today I went to the manufacturer's site for the jump drive, dug around their FAQs till I found one that told me which file to download to get their drive to talk to Morden and ME. Downloaded said file. Ran it as instructed.
Got the blue screen of death three or four times, and the last one it made me bring Morden up in safe mode. Blah. So I got that sorted out, and figured I'd plug in the drive to see if it worked.
Plug in drive. Blue screen of death. "Pres 'enter' to return or 'cntrl-alt-delete' to restart your computer." Yeah, yeah, and a lovely fucking day to you, too, Morden.
Tried to run the "Add New Hardware" thingy again. Blue screen of death. "Press enter to return..."
Hmm. Okay. Went back to the site, had another poke around, and I think I know what Morden's beef is (this time.) But still.
Fer cryin' out loud, all I want to do is finish the Alias smut I started writing yesterday. (Now you see why it got done on the back of the printout of the beginning, pre-smut parts, and a bunch of notebook pages.)
