Kevin, the future husband of my close friend Ca, is a computer programmer. After one of my phone calls to Ca, he took pity on me and sent an article about retrieving files from my old hard drive. Nick read the article and made out a simple step-by-step list. And guess what?
IT WORKED!
I spent all day today (actually, only about 6 hours) recovering my files. They are now sitting on Nick's computer. Woo-hoo!
Geek Squad also called today to inform me that they sent my laptop back to Best Buy...without (a) fixing it or (b) explaining what was wrong with it. Sigh. It is on its way back to Geek Squad HQ for another month. Nick thinks it would be a waste of money to repair it and wants me to just get a new one. He sees my 3-year-old laptop as an antique, which I think is ridiculous. I have no patience with planned obsolescence, and when I bought that laptop I expected it to last five years at the minimum. Sigh. Apparently I am in the minority.
At any rate, I told Nick that I would go to a Mac rather than have to deal with Vista. He was furious about that (since he builds computers for fun, he is all about the PC- apparently you can't build your own Mac). I ended up purchasing another copy of XP before they are out of stock and no longer exist. I will worry about changing to Vista when (a) this dissertation is over (b) all the bugs are worked out or (c) I learn to work Linux.
Whew. I have also made progress on the chapter drafts. I have drafted and completed the first round of edits to Chapter 1, drafted all of Chapter 4, and drafted 90% of Chapter 3. If I can avoid going into Chapter 13 this year (still unemployed), I might actually become Dr. Broome. Perish the thought.
Off to read a book that is due to the library tomorrow.
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HOORAY FOR SAVED FILES
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