Computer issues

Welcome back. I hate that sort of thing. I even hate getting a new computer (like the one at my left elbow) because setting it up the way I like it with all the stuff I want and none of the stuff I don't want, is a PITA.

Glad you were able to save the data on your hard drive, though. That would be such a bugger to lose.

Last Friday, my computer locked up tight, would not boot at all. I'm fairly comfortable with trying stuff, but nothing I did worked. Finally conceded defeat and called my cousin-the-tech-guy, who was able to retrieve all my files and programs from a *dead* harddrive, install Win 7 and all my stuff, restore all my XP settings and programs on a separate bootable drive, plus install a second CD/DVD R/RW drive I've been letting ripen in my stash, and I finally have internet connectivity again.

I still have to set up e-mail and newsgroups on the Windows 7 side, so I have to boot back and forth, but WHEW, I'm glad to be back. I'll check in from time to time...

My owned d**ned fault. I knew something was flaky, so in order to do a compete clean back up,I clean bunches of stuff off the internal drive, then deleted the previous backups from my external drive. WRONG. I no sooner deleted the backup files than my internal HD died. Oops!

I will be much more diligent about doing backups from here on out. As my DF-i-L used to say, "[I] learned a valuable lesson". :-}

Booting back over to the Win7 side now, where I have to climb the learning curve on using Thunderbird for e-mail and newsgroups. I could strangle the MS engineer who decided to kill Outlook Express...

Arrgh! DH did something similar a few weeks back. Did he swear! Keep your chin up!

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I used Eudora for years and years, and when they discontinued it, I went to Thunderbird. Because I was already using TB as a news reader. We had Outhouse at work, and I really disliked it. A lot. It wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do. I hope you and Thunderbird work out your differences soon. It has served me well.