the 90s laptop is locked down, but the restrictions on it are also apparent.

so, am i giving up on this horribly busted 7 install? i want a clean machine. maybe i can move it into a virtual machine, although....it's 64 bit, and that's a problem for me.

keeping in mind that i know the bios is probably infected, if i just completely format the boot partition and then mash a bunch of buttons, i should get the thing to boot from disc, if it can, right?

hrmmn.

let's finish what i'm doing first.

it's just that the next step is going to be very, very difficult to carry out on a machine with 256 mb of ram. i guess i get paid on tuesday. is the easiest thing to do to try to find some more ram? i've got the other machine running at 2, remember. but, i might be able to resolve that with a fresh install.

i never really got to reassembling it.

ugh.