So I had this old secondary drive, which I had mapped to D:, that I wanted to wipe so I could start using it for things, but it had an old Windows install on it and so Windows was giving me shit about formatting it. So I pressed some buttons at startup, got to a recovery menu where I could open the console, and told it to format D: there.
Turns out there's a thing where that's in a magical superspace where all your disc drive letters are incremented by one.
Fortunately, my old C: drive is a terabyte, so it was only 20% done before I realized something was amiss; in any case, I'm now running off my old drive, now properly wiped by the Windows installer, and I get a fun and exciting project now of learning about the magical world of data recovery.
In any case, now that I'm working with a clean slate (Windows 7 64), what's the current best-in-slot plugin for Firefox for reading PDFs? Are there any other applications or tools I should try to use that will make my life easier?
Also, anybody know anything about solid state drives? I did a buttload of research late last year, but I haven't looked at things since then - are there any shiny new market leaders, or should I just go reconstruct my conclusions from last year and buy that?