Computer!Fail
I bought a new laptop last week.
Today, having bought two new licences (one for me and one for Ina) from my preferred security supplier, I sallied forth to set up the system.
And I buggered it.
This was because it never occurred to me that a reliable supplier (Samsung) would supply a recovery system that required half of a 500 Gig hard disk. I misread the partitioning instructions, then had to go through an initial recovery backup to get into Win7 at all. When the system stubbornly refused to connect to my wireless internet, I foolishly asked it to go back to the recovery - and it then went into a continuous loop! I can make a system backup on other media, but the disk partition is permanent unless it is low level formatted, and I am always thrown into the recovery programme, which I want removed, at once, never to be seen again.
I can get into programme manager, but cannot identify the files I want shut down.
Besides, I am hopeless at this kind of thing.
This morning, Zara made an attempt not to chew through the mouse cable (which is satisfyingly retractable) but the supply cable. In fact, I am going to have to use electric cable wrap to save it.
Looks like PC World tomorrow in the hope their boys can remove this sodding recovery software and leave me with a partitioned hard disk I might be able to run properly.
Yes, I'm an idiot.
Today, having bought two new licences (one for me and one for Ina) from my preferred security supplier, I sallied forth to set up the system.
And I buggered it.
This was because it never occurred to me that a reliable supplier (Samsung) would supply a recovery system that required half of a 500 Gig hard disk. I misread the partitioning instructions, then had to go through an initial recovery backup to get into Win7 at all. When the system stubbornly refused to connect to my wireless internet, I foolishly asked it to go back to the recovery - and it then went into a continuous loop! I can make a system backup on other media, but the disk partition is permanent unless it is low level formatted, and I am always thrown into the recovery programme, which I want removed, at once, never to be seen again.
I can get into programme manager, but cannot identify the files I want shut down.
Besides, I am hopeless at this kind of thing.
This morning, Zara made an attempt not to chew through the mouse cable (which is satisfyingly retractable) but the supply cable. In fact, I am going to have to use electric cable wrap to save it.
Looks like PC World tomorrow in the hope their boys can remove this sodding recovery software and leave me with a partitioned hard disk I might be able to run properly.
Yes, I'm an idiot.