Crazy But Able

I just got a new harddrive and an external enclosure to put it in. Being rather unfamiliar in computer geekdom, I started fooling around with the stuff instead of waiting for Corey to come home. I put the stuff together and it didn’t work, so I thought I’d unplug and replug the connections and then try again before asking Corey. Myself, not being a computer geek, thought that if an IDE cable had a pull strap, pulling on this pullstrap would unplug it. I was wrong. This was not a pullstrap it was a destructostrap. How was I supposed to know that computer manufacturers specifically make there pullstraps so that, when pulled, they effortlessly rip the IDE plug in half? I didn’t know that the pullstrap was a computer industry scam to make you break it and then have to find or buy a new one. Thankfully, Corey chopped apart an old IDE cable and made that work.

Then of course was the fact that I couldn’t get it to work in the first place. The problem was that I didn’t read the troubleshooting section. After reading “No installation driver be requested for computer running Windows 2000/ME/XP”, I assumed it wouldn’t be worth it. Corey, who never reads directions, pointed out that I didn’t fully read the directions. Then, when he tried to follow the directions, he found they didn’t work with my computer and had to call John to make things work. It works now. Woo hoo!

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