Wow, David, you really have been through it in the past few months,
haven't you? You have my utmost sympathy.
I guess the advantage of being such a minimal computer user, as I am,
is that I almost never have any crashes, etc. Knock on wood!
Jan
On 11/16/15, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. My Dell Windows 7 machine is still in the shop and so I called today forYou are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
a status update. I received both some bad news as well as good news.
Good news: it is likely that I was not hit with a virus or some other
malware.
Bad news: the problem is mechanical and is an issue with a failing drive.
Good news: I will be getting a new hard drive. I was putting too much
software and was constantly fighting for space on the system's 80 GB drive.
I will be getting a new 250 GB drive. That is still small compared to
today's computers but it will meet my needs and will be affordable.
Good news: they will install Windows 10 on the new drive, saving me the time
and drama of upgrading myself.
It will take a few days for them to get the new drive. This means that I am
still using my iPhone, along with an Anker keyboard, as my computer until I
get my Dell computer. Even after I get it I will need to install and
configure all of the software that I
use. This will be easy but it will take a bit of time. Therefore, my
activity on the list will be minimal but I will post when I can and when
doing so is needed. During the week I've been pretty busy and tired after
work and so I probably won't do much posting to the list after today until
the weekend.
David Goldfield
Assistive Technology Specialist
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