Computer troubles

Merry Christmas to you all!

It’s clearly not my day, tho.  I came home to find my central heating had broken down.  That’s fixed – amazing to get an engineer on Christmas day! – but my Windows Vista laptop has decided to refuse to boot.  It gets stuck running CHKDSK.

After some effort and running the repair program on the install disk, I have managed to get it to boot; but it’s still whining a bit about this and that, and it all smacks of hard disk corruption.  This means, of course, that I can’t trust it with my data.  At this moment I’m typing this using an old laptop, and trying to do a mass copy from the PC to an external hard disk.  My data matters far more than the PC, although it’s only a few months old.

The reason I burden you with this is that it will probably affect the progress of my various projects. 

What I will need to do is get a new laptop, and make sure the thing has XP on it.  I have never had these problems in my entire career – until I bought a machine running Vista, that is.

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