It’s done. I killed my desktop. A friend at work needed a copy of Win2000 and I offered to burn him one. I’ve had a bootleg Win2000 cd for years and it has never failed me. I thought I should probably test the cd first to make sure it still worked. My desktop has gotten clogged with various annoying third party apps and I figured a fresh install would help. It didn’t.

At the initial install screen it asked for a .ini file and urged me to insert a cd entitled “Windows2000 Professional.” It was in. I said “OK” a million times but the file was MIA. So I tried to cancel out of the Setup process and set the first boot device to IDE-0 (that’s the C: hard drive for you normal people not familiar with geekspeak). It rebooted fine but as soon as it hit Windows, it asked for the file. Damn.

Any suggestions? I suppose I could surf the net for the specific .ini file, but who knows what other files vanished from the cd. And I’m sick of that computer anyway. Good riddance. But it did have a cool blueberry-colored case (a-la iMac).