Just One Fix
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Or, in this case, a complete reformat and 114 Windows updates.
I just completed a 'restoration' job on a laptop. What was supposed to be a quick installation of MS Office at a Starbucks turned into a 4 hour nightmare, followed up by me taking the man's laptop home. After a Knoppix LiveCD (indispensable, IMHO) to save the data, pulling the hard drive and reformatting, then installing the OS from scratch, this Toshiba Tecra 9100 runs as good as new. Actually, better than new, since I tweaked the BIOS a bit.
Oh, and I placed a trade for over 20 million dollars today. But the laptop excited me more. Is that sad?
Geek on, my friends. Geek on.
I just completed a 'restoration' job on a laptop. What was supposed to be a quick installation of MS Office at a Starbucks turned into a 4 hour nightmare, followed up by me taking the man's laptop home. After a Knoppix LiveCD (indispensable, IMHO) to save the data, pulling the hard drive and reformatting, then installing the OS from scratch, this Toshiba Tecra 9100 runs as good as new. Actually, better than new, since I tweaked the BIOS a bit.
Oh, and I placed a trade for over 20 million dollars today. But the laptop excited me more. Is that sad?
Geek on, my friends. Geek on.
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