It feels like Monday....

Well, actually yesterday felt like Monday, today it is just continuing for good measure.  Last night the hard drive on my Vista Ultimate Media Center PC decided it was going to crap out.  No big deal.  Luckily, all my episodes of Family Guy, Futurama, and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (READ: BABY SITTER)  luckily those  were stored on my TB external drive.

When I originally bought my copy of Vista, I just bought the upgrade since I did not feel like forking out all the bucks for the full version.  This is unfortunate as you have to run the setup from within Windows in the upgrade version.  No big deal, I still have my registration key for Windows XP so I figured I would just go ahead and re-install that version.  In the meantime I figured I would run Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard drive and start the computer clean as a whistle.

In goes the Windows XP SP2 installation disc.  Windows setup starts, loads all the system files and then I get to the "Press Enter to Install Windows" prompt.  Pushing enter I then get told Windows cannot find my hard drive.  I have the case open already so I look in there.  Yep.  There it is.  I check the bios and just for good measure run diagnostics on the HD just to make sure everything is fine....  My system has SATA drives which Windows XP does not like without the SATA controller drivers installed, but Windows Vista can handle the SATA controller with no problems....

So then I have the bright idea to install Vista with the product key off of my laptop, then I will just change the product key back to my upgrade version.  I had everything installed and went to change the product key back only to find out that you cannot change a full installation product key to a upgrade installation product key as it was not meant to be used on a clean install.  So now I am having to upgrade the copy I just installed....

It has been a great day.