—what could have been a site-fatal db screwup. We did lose a few bells and whistles, but we are now running cleaner and perhaps more functional than before.<\/p>\n
Bear with me while I get this site prettified again and get some features back.<\/p>\n
I’m having a week—the repairman either didn’t connect a cable to the RW drive or had a bad one, or there’s a fault with the mobo and with the new USB ports—because the first error is back, and after exhausting two expert repair techs at Dell, I’m sending the machine in. I have my older Latitude, so I’m not computerless, but I’ve had quite a to-do getting communication with Carbonite techs to be sure of some features, getting the essential files backed up, which at 20 gig a folder is a chore—and the Passport at first didn’t want to take it: technique has to be drag-drop or modification thereof: it doesn’t seem to like command lines. Got that done. I’ve run System Mechanic, Malwarebytes and various others, so in some ways the disk is quite clean. But it’s also in big chunks, (folders in folders in folders ad infinitum) so if you lose a big ‘un, you’re hosed.<\/p>\n
THere’s a chance they’ll have to wipe the hard disk and reinstall, because we can’t figure how it would still be a hardware problem, unless we have a second bad board—which the local repair guy can’t judge—and that would mean a total reinstall.<\/p>\n
But we’ve spent today collecting all relevant discs, and getting the installation codes on things that don’t have discs, getting a belarc.com list of all the system as it now stands — belarc no longer gives you the key codes to most software, so all those had to be hand-collected—and we’re now as ready as we’re likely to be.<\/p>\n
The good news is if they have to do that they’ll give us back a clean install of Win 7 and we’ll go from there with the assist from Carbonite, which preserves all data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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