{"id":49873,"date":"2015-03-19T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/good-news-and-and-bad-news-on-the-home-computer-front.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T21:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T03:47:20","slug":"good-news-and-and-bad-news-on-the-home-computer-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/good-news-and-and-bad-news-on-the-home-computer-front.html","title":{"rendered":"Good news and and bad news on the home computer front"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span> for his assistance in diagnosing what was wrong with my computer. Which, as it turns out, seems to be a a hard drive so frelled that it was actually interfering with booting up even when I had a bootable thumb drive selected in the BIOS to run.<\/p>\n

So … a new drive appears to be in order. Which will then be a PitA to set up, but at least +<\/span>Backblaze<\/a><\/span> will help me restore my files, huzzah.<\/p>\n

Below: me, using my work laptop for a Hangout with Les, who is looking at my BIOS screens. +<\/span>Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> thought this was hysterial. I had the ill-conceived notion of being glad that she doesn't do instant media, and the next thing I knew …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nMargie Kleerup on Twitter: “Les and Dave try to fix Dave’s computer “<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to +Les Jenkins for his assistance in diagnosing what was wrong with my computer. Which, as it turns out, seems to be a a hard drive so frelled that it was actually interfering with booting up even when I had a bootable thumb drive selected in the BIOS to run. 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