So Wednesday night, I was doing some basic computer maintenance updating my drivers. I installed one update that didn't work, and then did a second one that required a reboot.
And my laptop hung on the reboot, and I got an error message asking for a start-up repair disc. I will now be keeping one in the laptop bag, because I did not have one. I had to wait until I got home this weekend to create a disc from Jennifer's computer (I couldn't find one I had created previously). The repair disc wasn't able to perform the repair, and my only option was to reformat and reinstall.
The bad news is that I haven’t been able to do a backup lately. Things just haven’t been working well. So I was a little troubled.
I borrowed Jennifer’s computer, and dove into finding a Linux boot CD/DVD with a file system program so that I could move my documents to a jump drive. I got better than I had hoped for with Knoppix. It had a pretty easy to use GUI, and got me connected to my wireless network. I was able to move my user files to my NAS, and then do the reformat and reinstall thing.
My spare time this week is going to be getting rid of the junkware that came with the computer originally, and getting all of my settings back the way I liked them.
But the point is, I have all of my files to do that.
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