no go

Well, it's now 1:55 am. I opened my case and realized that I don't have an available IDE slot on my motherboard for the drive. I do have an HD IDE plug from the cable coming out of my DVD-ROM, but it won't reach to the bay I would have to put the drive into. So, the moral of the story is, everything is too crammed and crazy inside my machine for me to be able to install this drive myself. Maybe when I get to Nashville I can find some nice computer geek to help me. My video card is gigantaur and takes up a lot of space in there. I have cables running everywhere and it's just a total mess.

I already have two SATA drives, a CD-RW, a floppy drive and a DVD-ROM drive in there. Worst case scenario, I can have someone help me just plug the drive to my machine and not mount it just so I can get the files off it that I want and then put it somewhere for posterity. I can't boot to it so there's really no point in keeping it in there, especially since I have a huge new SATA drive begging to store something.

So, now what to do. I suppose I could go back upstairs and attempt again to pack up my bathroom or something. Or I could start a new book. Sucks that I have to get up early tomorrow. I shouldn't have drunk that red bull. Damn that devil drink.