So… I wanted to increase my Windows partition by 5GB to fit a game. I saved the original partition to the old backup disk using WinClone. Then I realised my main drive was too fragmented to let me allocate another 5GB to Windows. I then copied everything from the internal hard disk to the backup disk. Then 2 things went wrong.
First, I managed to completely lose the Windows filesystem. At the same time that I re-partitioned the disk, the WinClone image just vanished.
Second, I had installed a new version of rsync (in an effort to get syncing going with the NAS backup disk) and it silently ignored the -E switch, totally screwing up my Mac OS X install (yes, I know resource forks are legacy but I’ve got some important apps that still rely on them).
So I’ve had to rebuild my Windows install from scratch. Luckily I don’t really have anything installed on there (just whatever games I’m playing at the moment). I noticed something though. A feature found in Boot Camp 1.2 has been missing in every version since. When I do “Advanced Properties” on the video card I get a series of ATI tabs in addition to the standard tabs. If you don’t install the Boot Camp 1.2 drivers first you don’t get this. I think you can get a similar effect by installing a full Catalyst driver but at least one of the things I use, PowerPlay, does not seem to be mentioned in the Catalyst driver I found. So I’ve built my Windows install up by installing Boot Camp 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and then the 2.0 drivers. I probably could have gone from 1.2 to 2.0 but who knows what else has come and gone in the mean time…
My Mac system is missing some bits but all the important stuff is back now. The biggest problems were Palm Desktop (which makes extensive use of resource forks, even for data files) and AppleWorks. I seem to have thrown out the AppleWorks CD. Luckily the internet keeps things like this around so I’ve got it back too. I’ve also got Mac Office 2004 (got it for Bree and it comes with 3 licenses so I’ve got it installed) and NeoOffice. Mac Office was a joke. I installed it off the CD then I had to download and run, one at a time, 20-odd updaters. Hey Microsoft, how about a combo updater or at least letting the update tool run the available updates one after the other without intervention?
The thing that bums me the most about all this? I lost my savegame for FEAR. I’m not sure how far I was but it’s enough that it’s annoying to have to do it again.
