so i had a hard drive fail, windows was on it
so i copied it over to a working one, redid the MBR, etc. yada yada
aaaaaaand i'm now dealing with how terrible this operating system is. i can't run anything except for maybe 3 system programs, and nothing will run as an administrator
it's so bad that it's creating a temporary user even though it knows i'm logged in as myself
like look at this stuff
essentially what's going on:
C: is no longer being assigned. the new copy of C: is being assigned H:. the old C: drive is dead. windows is too stupid to realize this is a system drive and nothing is being assigned C:. microsoft is too incompetent to bother with UUID mounting.
EDIT: i do know i need to edit the registry to fix it, but that's rather difficult considering windows doesn't know it exists.