Bugger.
My PC died. I’d had the laptop for four years and after a Windows security update during the week a system file has become corrupted and won’t let me boot it. I took it to PC World (or ABC World as my son called it) and was told that data could be recovered but it’ll mean removing the hard drive into a caddy and then connecting that through a USB to another PC.
Sadly my book is on the original PC (although most chapters are backed up in my office) and all family photos are on the C Drive (but all bar last two months have been backed up on CD).
So today I have been forced to acquire a new PC. This is my first post from the new PC as I try to acquaint myself with some of these new-fangled system additions.
Back to wallowing in self-pity…
dead pc
Aaargh – I sympathise.
I remember reading about ten years ago that there were two types of hard drives – ones that are dead and ones that are about to die.
You’ve done well to have backed up most of your stuff. On more than one occasion I have feverishly locked the stable door after the hard drive has bolted – when you’re in possession of a deceased drive, the manuals always say “Gather together your back-up discs/tapes/drives – ahem, you have backed up, haven’t you?” – it’s rather too late then to be answering in the negative.
Good luck
alastair