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Originally Posted by Wald07
OH! Fizzy!  You poor thing! I cannot handle the heat. Makes me queasy! |
Well, good news and bad news.
Good news: The power's back on. I had turned everything off except a light (although I didn't actually unplug everything, I have surge protectors on the TV/gadget stand and on the computer desk).
Bad news: Despite the surge protectors, it looks like my 7-year-old laptop was a victim. I was originally able to get in under Safe Mode, but after running a scan disk overnight, even that doesn't work. I'm going to try to go in on an Ubuntu USB drive and see how many of my files I can get off of it before it completely dies! I have a lot of the important ones on Dropbox (thank goodness, someone on this site talked me into Dropbox!), but at least one of the critical ones - the one with all the brand-new passwords because I moved in the last couple weeks - wasn't. So fingers crossed, it's not in the "dead-zone".
I'm going to try reimaging, but I'll admit after 7 years, I was thinking it was probably time to upgrade anyway. I really don't want to "upgrade" to Windows 7, though. I'm entirely happy with XP. It does what I want, when I want, and I'm familiar with how it works. I really don't want to have to learn yet another operating system!
(I thought it was safe to clutter this thread with "chatter", since July has a new thread).
I just had to tell someone!