First off I installed the new hdd into my main pc and booted up my XP cd. Turns out that the cd is trash now. It thought my 160 and 300 gb hdds were 130 each. When I tried to make a partition with it on my main drive I think it might have nuked the data on my data drive. So I could be looking at a loss of about 270 gigs of stuff. Really the only crappy thing about that is my 30 gigs of music. I'll have to drag my tower over to my parents house to get my Dad's back up of music. Then I'll have to re-rip all of my cds again.

So instead of windows I'm going to try a Linux only system for a while. Which might mean no more games for me for a while. I'm going to look into getting wine working well enough to try and emulate some games. More than likely I won't be playing HL2:EP2 or TF2 any time soon. Not like I have any time right now to do that. I'm going to put together a guide for setting up a Debian Desktop. It will be what I did on my system. Since I'm using this for more of a testing/learning system I'll post up guides on doing the extra things like compiling a kernel. So far I got a basic system up. Then compiled and installed the latest Openbox, obconf and obmenu. The last thing I did was get Firefox(well Iceweasel) setup to my liking. I'll work on those guides and probably have them up next(not this) weekend.