Here comes the sun
This afternoon I finally finished getting functional again after the Great Harddrive Failure of 2010. Seven days of scrambling to get back up: this sucked. Just as I opened the last major program I needed to have running the sun came out.
I'm heaving an audible sigh of relief. I have my data: the techies were able to copy what wasn't previously backed up off the failed harddrive. I have functionality. The fact that I'm working on a 6 year old laptop with USB 1.0 ports doesn't faze me. I'm working again! And it stopped raining! Yay!
I still have to decide what to do next. I'm either buying a new computer running Windows 7 (and hope I can run my legacy stuff on it, or virtualize an XP environment, or maybe run two partitions...) OR I'm going to reinstall all my software on my three year old desktop running XP. One of the reasons I didn't want to buy a computer this year was because it's such a major pain in the ass to install 10 years' worth of tax software and QB versions on my computers. Once I get one I like to just keep it. The other reason is that I'm cheap and I'd rather not buy a new system every three years. But I was thinking I wanted to move to a laptop instead of a desktop for my next computer. OTOH, I just got done spending a week getting my OLD laptop up and functional for production if I need a laptop on an occasional gig.
What would you do? Buy a new computer? Reinstall everything on the old one? Arrgggh! I hate these issues.
I'm heaving an audible sigh of relief. I have my data: the techies were able to copy what wasn't previously backed up off the failed harddrive. I have functionality. The fact that I'm working on a 6 year old laptop with USB 1.0 ports doesn't faze me. I'm working again! And it stopped raining! Yay!
I still have to decide what to do next. I'm either buying a new computer running Windows 7 (and hope I can run my legacy stuff on it, or virtualize an XP environment, or maybe run two partitions...) OR I'm going to reinstall all my software on my three year old desktop running XP. One of the reasons I didn't want to buy a computer this year was because it's such a major pain in the ass to install 10 years' worth of tax software and QB versions on my computers. Once I get one I like to just keep it. The other reason is that I'm cheap and I'd rather not buy a new system every three years. But I was thinking I wanted to move to a laptop instead of a desktop for my next computer. OTOH, I just got done spending a week getting my OLD laptop up and functional for production if I need a laptop on an occasional gig.
What would you do? Buy a new computer? Reinstall everything on the old one? Arrgggh! I hate these issues.