rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
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How I ****ed up!
What not to do when installing MSOffice 2013
Greed will cause pain
7 mistakes of my life
I chose the former.
Prologue:-
Two months back my friend told me that in their company Microsoft is having a campaign and giving away Microsoft Office 2013 license @Rs 450/- I was really surprised as this includes all MS packages at those things at such cheap price. I though of acquiring one and asked him if could buy more than one (he too wanted to buy one for himself)
Couple of days later he informed that only one license can be bought by one employee. He could order one for him which I would take and he would manage one form him somehow. I agreed. That evening I received a mail from MS asking me to buy this promotional license from a given link.
Present day:-
Day 1:-
After two months of this mail I, on one fine night thought of buying that license. Transaction was smooth. Got a mail from MS including license key and Office download link.
When I downloaded, it downloaded a 2 MB exe file.
.
.
.
I executed it and it told it would download 5.5 GB of data and very innocently it mentioned that download (DL from now) directory has to be "C:\" only. I searched online for a solution for this as I had only 900MB free space on my C drive. Found nothing.
I then decided to upgrade my system(M1). It was long time I was living on space crunch on C and in dire need of realigning of my partitions. It was Friday night and I decided to buy a 500GB the very next day.
As upgrade was decided I devised a plan on how to use the HDDs now. I finalized existing 160GB drive as a single partition where OS will be installed (I use Win 7) and using the new 500GB for rest of work.
Now, I was scared of installing Win7 again with all the drivers, the huge amount of updates it would download and then all the necessary softwares. I thought of cloning the partition(M2). Found articles online on things I need for this job. Downloaded "Ultimate Boot CD"(UBCD from now on) and burned the ISO. Boot from CD and tried to backup my C drive in my external hard drive with the help of "EaseUS" software. Another shock! Got a prompt the operation would delete all data of the destination drive! Immediate STOP! As the drive holds all my movies!
What now?!! What now?!! Bingo!!! I could just delete all but C drive partition and then extend C drive, why had I not thought ago?!! Shame on me(M3)
Deleted rest of the drives. They were all logical drives. So, even after deleting them and extending them into one single drive C drive won't extend. WTF? Was it clashing because of C is Primary and the rest 120GB is logical?! Could be. Deleted the whole 120GB and made it non-dos. Tried to extend again. Did not work again. Why the fcuk it won't extend?!!
Is disk cloning only option now?! Okz...I'll clone the partition then (M4)
So, I decided to buy one 500GB HDD and another 32GB pen drive to take backup of C drive partition. And went to sleep
Day 2:-
Went to chandni chowk and bought a Seagate 500GB HDD @2975/- and a Sandisk cruzer 32GB @ 1000/-. Happily returned home. The time is 5PM on Saturday. My plan of watching "Jolly LLB" canceled already.
Plugged in new 500GB drive, attached 32GB USB and boot system from UBCD. Partitioned new HDD. and I was all set to clone my C drive.
As I was going to start this project I suddenly remembered I don't have my Win7 DVD with me. Should I have one or should I not? Today I wonder is that even a thing to ponder upon? No PC user (specially a Windows user) in this world has embarked on such a fail-prone path without accompanying his faithful windows installation disk. I, the great Rhitwick was clouded with over-confidence and convinced myself "there won't be any issue, no need of the disk" (M5). I Could have easily created one disk. I had the image with me, my PC was still working flawlessly, the blank DVD seller is just below my housing. And I thought everything would be alright(M6). Poor me...oh...poor, poor me!
Boot from UBCD, fired up "EaseUS" again. Yeah baby! This time I was ready. Selected option of cloning partition to pen drive. Took 2 Hrs to copy to pen drive. Once done. I fired up "GParted" from UBCD and deleted C drive. Created a new partition, somehow it became Logical. I did not suspect anything. Fired up EaseUs and restored partition.
I noticed one thing this time, instead of using the whole 150GB as a single partition, the tool made two sections, one as same as the backup i.e. one 30GB primary drive and another 120GB non-dos!!!
Okz, I had no issue with that. I'll extend again.
System reboot....alas! Not entering to Win7. Bootmanager not found. And instantly I remembered I made the gravest mistake...did not take back-up of my bootmgr (M7)!!!
Again Gparted, delete and create primary partition.
Again EaseUS, again copy, not booting to Win 7
Again Gparted, delete and non-dos.
Again EaseUS, again copy, not booting to Win 7
What now...what now? How to fix. I did not take backup of my C drive as I was too confident of cloning. What now? How about fixing bootmgr?! That could work!
There were at least 10 boot mgr fixing software in UBCD, tried almost all till now.
Tried fixing bootmgr, did not work
Tried recovering, did not work
Tried creating one, did not work
Tried accessing Boot.INI file from my now restored image, did not work...
It was 11.30PM, I was hungry...had my diner. And again started from scratch, Gparted, EaseUS, Boot fixing. No luck. I was getting the hint I ****ed up.
3.30AM went to sleep.
Day 3:-
Mom-dad is coming today. Can't invest much time. Morning I tried few more bootmgr fixing softwares. No luck. Again resumed at night with rest of the tools...no luck.
Now I was really missing my Win 7 installation disk and was on the brink of jumping from roof. Then I remembered this friend of mine who just one week back took a copy of Win 7 from me. Called him up, begged to give me the disk ASAP tomorrow. He was in Midnapore.
Went to sleep accepting my defeat.
Day 4:-
He came to my office today and lend me the Win 7 disk. I'll start as fresh today. Wish me luck guys. And learn from my mistakes. Don't be greedy in your life.
How I ****ed up!
What not to do when installing MSOffice 2013
Greed will cause pain
7 mistakes of my life
I chose the former.
Prologue:-
Two months back my friend told me that in their company Microsoft is having a campaign and giving away Microsoft Office 2013 license @Rs 450/- I was really surprised as this includes all MS packages at those things at such cheap price. I though of acquiring one and asked him if could buy more than one (he too wanted to buy one for himself)
Couple of days later he informed that only one license can be bought by one employee. He could order one for him which I would take and he would manage one form him somehow. I agreed. That evening I received a mail from MS asking me to buy this promotional license from a given link.
Present day:-
Day 1:-
After two months of this mail I, on one fine night thought of buying that license. Transaction was smooth. Got a mail from MS including license key and Office download link.
When I downloaded, it downloaded a 2 MB exe file.
.
.
.
I executed it and it told it would download 5.5 GB of data and very innocently it mentioned that download (DL from now) directory has to be "C:\" only. I searched online for a solution for this as I had only 900MB free space on my C drive. Found nothing.
I then decided to upgrade my system(M1). It was long time I was living on space crunch on C and in dire need of realigning of my partitions. It was Friday night and I decided to buy a 500GB the very next day.
As upgrade was decided I devised a plan on how to use the HDDs now. I finalized existing 160GB drive as a single partition where OS will be installed (I use Win 7) and using the new 500GB for rest of work.
Now, I was scared of installing Win7 again with all the drivers, the huge amount of updates it would download and then all the necessary softwares. I thought of cloning the partition(M2). Found articles online on things I need for this job. Downloaded "Ultimate Boot CD"(UBCD from now on) and burned the ISO. Boot from CD and tried to backup my C drive in my external hard drive with the help of "EaseUS" software. Another shock! Got a prompt the operation would delete all data of the destination drive! Immediate STOP! As the drive holds all my movies!
What now?!! What now?!! Bingo!!! I could just delete all but C drive partition and then extend C drive, why had I not thought ago?!! Shame on me(M3)
Deleted rest of the drives. They were all logical drives. So, even after deleting them and extending them into one single drive C drive won't extend. WTF? Was it clashing because of C is Primary and the rest 120GB is logical?! Could be. Deleted the whole 120GB and made it non-dos. Tried to extend again. Did not work again. Why the fcuk it won't extend?!!
Is disk cloning only option now?! Okz...I'll clone the partition then (M4)
So, I decided to buy one 500GB HDD and another 32GB pen drive to take backup of C drive partition. And went to sleep
Day 2:-
Went to chandni chowk and bought a Seagate 500GB HDD @2975/- and a Sandisk cruzer 32GB @ 1000/-. Happily returned home. The time is 5PM on Saturday. My plan of watching "Jolly LLB" canceled already.
Plugged in new 500GB drive, attached 32GB USB and boot system from UBCD. Partitioned new HDD. and I was all set to clone my C drive.
As I was going to start this project I suddenly remembered I don't have my Win7 DVD with me. Should I have one or should I not? Today I wonder is that even a thing to ponder upon? No PC user (specially a Windows user) in this world has embarked on such a fail-prone path without accompanying his faithful windows installation disk. I, the great Rhitwick was clouded with over-confidence and convinced myself "there won't be any issue, no need of the disk" (M5). I Could have easily created one disk. I had the image with me, my PC was still working flawlessly, the blank DVD seller is just below my housing. And I thought everything would be alright(M6). Poor me...oh...poor, poor me!
Boot from UBCD, fired up "EaseUS" again. Yeah baby! This time I was ready. Selected option of cloning partition to pen drive. Took 2 Hrs to copy to pen drive. Once done. I fired up "GParted" from UBCD and deleted C drive. Created a new partition, somehow it became Logical. I did not suspect anything. Fired up EaseUs and restored partition.
I noticed one thing this time, instead of using the whole 150GB as a single partition, the tool made two sections, one as same as the backup i.e. one 30GB primary drive and another 120GB non-dos!!!
Okz, I had no issue with that. I'll extend again.
System reboot....alas! Not entering to Win7. Bootmanager not found. And instantly I remembered I made the gravest mistake...did not take back-up of my bootmgr (M7)!!!
Again Gparted, delete and create primary partition.
Again EaseUS, again copy, not booting to Win 7
Again Gparted, delete and non-dos.
Again EaseUS, again copy, not booting to Win 7
What now...what now? How to fix. I did not take backup of my C drive as I was too confident of cloning. What now? How about fixing bootmgr?! That could work!
There were at least 10 boot mgr fixing software in UBCD, tried almost all till now.
Tried fixing bootmgr, did not work
Tried recovering, did not work
Tried creating one, did not work
Tried accessing Boot.INI file from my now restored image, did not work...
It was 11.30PM, I was hungry...had my diner. And again started from scratch, Gparted, EaseUS, Boot fixing. No luck. I was getting the hint I ****ed up.
3.30AM went to sleep.
Day 3:-
Mom-dad is coming today. Can't invest much time. Morning I tried few more bootmgr fixing softwares. No luck. Again resumed at night with rest of the tools...no luck.
Now I was really missing my Win 7 installation disk and was on the brink of jumping from roof. Then I remembered this friend of mine who just one week back took a copy of Win 7 from me. Called him up, begged to give me the disk ASAP tomorrow. He was in Midnapore.
Went to sleep accepting my defeat.
Day 4:-
He came to my office today and lend me the Win 7 disk. I'll start as fresh today. Wish me luck guys. And learn from my mistakes. Don't be greedy in your life.