I’m updating a computer for a friend.  Nice little rig.  Dual 200gb WD2000bb’s and RAID 0 on to SATA 80Gb Maxtors on a P4 HT 3.2Ghz and 1Gb DDR2.  Not bad for a 3-4 year old hand built system.  One of the WD’s failed, so I had to pull it and redesignate the remaining PATA drive to Primary/Single.

Every time I do this I remember why I didn’t go in to tech (per se).  Managing a network is bad enough, but I can’t imagine going back to having a room full of dead white boxes trying to bring them back from the dead.

All this empty drive space allows me to do some regular backups, though.  The friend didn’t lose anythinig crucial on the failed drive, but next time we won’t take chances.  It’ll be redundant thanks to MS SyncToy and a couple other items.

Anyways, if you’re curious, going from XP Pro SP1 to Pro SP3 requires 148 updates and counting, plus the SP2 and SP3 downloads.  FUN TIMES.