The things you learn

2 weeks ago, my computer died on me. It just decided to reboot, and refuse to boot up windows. What's stranger, is that when I insert the windows boot disk, it can't detect a windows to detect, on EITHER of my hard drives. Even weirder still, is that when I tried to reformat my hard drive, it will ALWAYS attempt to reformat my C drive, regardless of what I tell it to do. But it won't even do THAT. It would try VERY HARD to try and reformat a drive, but fail miserably (after an hour of attempted formatting, the process is still at 0%). So, I figured it was a good time to get a new computer.
Over the weekend, I went and purchased a new motherboard, a new processor, and a pair of dual channel rams. I hit some road blocks, and decided to improve my family's piece of junk computer. In the process of improvement, I broke it. It took me a very long time, but in the end, I finally fixed it (more like combining functional parts from an even older computer, and the family's bucket of rust). It was very annoying, because the good parts which are still functional from my broken computer was too new for my family's computer, so most of my "improvement" effort went down the toilet. Oh well.
So now I have a somewhat "new" computer (the only things that were from the original computer are the case, the sound card, the ethernet card, and the floppy drive). I am very proud for building it, and making it work. Furthermore, I finally figured out how to fully use the 200 GB of my hard drive. All you had to do is go into the control panel, admin tool, and partition the unused space on the drive. You'd think there would be more places on the net that tells you to do that, but no. I've gone through months of research to find that extremely simple solution. Well, at least now I have an excellent computer (compared to my older one) that actually won't go into seizures everytime I make it multitask, and I've gained the ability to build a computer from scratch. Woot!