mmm, yeah. I was hoping it would restore the existing one. anyway, the drama in this whole computer thing has (hopefully) hit a turning point. During all this I made a backup. My memory didn’t take note that the backup was of a 100% clean installation, as in none of my backed up data. So this whole weekend I was trying to crack into some backup archives I had specifically to recover said data, but yet I still don’t have it. there’s a tool on the ultimate boot cd that claims to recover partitions even if they have been deleted and/or formatted, i’m running it to see if I can hit this partition I made for the backup earlier, now that I can boot my system, so that I at least don’t lose my data. If I’m successful, first thing I’m doing is then backing up all of that to optical media.
btw, my computer’s windows issues have angered me. I’ll prolly look soon into seeing how much it’ll sell for, and if it’s enough then sell it to go for a newegg barebones build, or i might just convert it to linux for good…