Friday, June 22, 2018

Watch what you delete

Since my laptop was running slowly I thought I would delete I would delete some files I didn't think I needed. Bad thought.

When I shutdown and restarted I had no OS, Windows 10. None of the recovery options would work. So I bought a terabyte external drive copied c:/users/Larry files ( no backslash on my phone keyboard) using xcopy. Took a while. Reloaded win 10 and spent time getting things back to where I can use it.

I bought 16gig of RAM and installed it. Since this is an older laptop I may change the HD with an SDD because I expect the HD will fail eventually.  Besides an SDD will be faster than an HD.

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