Surprisingly, everything seems to have gone basically as planned. There were a few little glitches–I couldn’t cannibalize my old A: drive, because that one didn’t work anyway–but somehow I managed to migrate the DVD drive and the secondary hard drive without incident or loss of data.
Of course, there were minor little adventures on the way, like prying the drive I wanted to transfer out of its housing with pliers because a screw holding it in place was stripped and wouldn’t come out, and the frantic race to install drivers that the Windows reinstall had deleted before the lack of those drivers caused a system crash… but it seems to be stable now. At the very minimum, it boots faster than the old machine used to.
So, now that this is done, after dinner I get to go work on AI for another several hours.
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