Well unfortunately today my laptop’s Vista install decided that six months was far too long living and committed suicide. Eye-witness reports indicate that a bungled auto-update was leaving the scene shortly before the explosion which took out the OS foundations.
I managed to fix the installation with a quick OS repair, but ended up deciding to copy off my data, wipe the disk and start again. The first month or so of owning the laptop was a hard time for the OS, as my Toshiba laptop model’s “black screen of death” (since fixed with a BIOS update) caused many unscheduled system crashes which no doubt would have bamboozled some of the critical components in unknowable ways. That, and the crashes from my early USB experiments led to me decide to reinstall all over again.
Several hours later, and it’s like I never left - score one for external hard disks. I’m still fuming about the latest trend of using hidden “recovery partitions” rather than actual physical OS install disks, but to Toshiba’s credit the re-imaging of the disk did go along smoothly. The only casualty which I’ll be morning for many months yet was an obscure old game called Lands Of Lore which I had installed into a part of my computer outside my profile, causing me to loose the saved game files. That really sucks, as I’ve had the game for at least 10 years and my brother and I are yet to finish it, and the saved game was at the very last obstacle before the end of the game. Oh, how I lament my forgetfulness!
Oh well, at least everything else is back to normal and stable once again. Now for the 9 trillion OS updates…
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