Pinche Windows XP
The good thing about working in an office with tech savvy folk is that they understand when you phone in saying your computer is sick and you have to nurse it back to health. ‘Llevalo al doctor’ they said, ‘es tu bebe’… So i went to the doctor to check on their prices and they said it would cost around 50 bucks to back up the hard drive, then whatever to replace it. Now, my computer was refusing to start in safe mode even, so i did a scan in command prompt and sometimes it found errors, sometimes not. So I tried a reinstall of XP. It kept saying it could’t find key files on the install CD so I just skipped them. Now it appears to be working fine, but to be on the safe side, I’m backing up my important files (5 DVDs so far…), doing a thorough virus check, and then I’m going to try a reinstall again. Then maybe go to work this afternoon… ah PCs. This evening up to 16 people from Sita’s old Spanish course may be coming round so while I watched progress bars snail across the screen i did a bit of a spring clean… last night was the Grammies and scrabble, for anyone interested… Cross yer fingers everyone for the little hard drive that could…
I’ve just ordered a large external backup HDD. One of my HDs died after running above 55degrees C. My present one is fanned-down to typically 24degrees but I still want security…
Synchronicity, what?
Las time I had to do that I then had to download 50M of XP and Office service patches, and new virus def’ns etc.
Best of luck…
(PS My latest Office update asserted Outlook to be my email client and I thougt I’d list all Thunderbird’s stored emails…)
well everything seems okay now, EXCEPT Internet Explorer. So I can’t download any updates/ patches because you can’t use Firefox. AND because I installed IE7 on Monday I can’t redownload IE6… AND there’s no restore points prior to yesterday afternoon… Eeh well, thanks for the solidarity 🙂