The studio laptop started throwing BSOD error messages a couple of days ago.\u00a0So I began running a series of deep-scan diagnostics which, eventually, firmly pointed to a non-peripheral hardware failure.<\/p>\n
The final utility did a l-o-n-g comb through the system config, and eventually popped its head up to say ‘It’s your Hard Disk, man.<\/p>\n
The Hard Disk continued to work, but on boot-up I would get an error message that said (I’ll paraphrase) ‘backup and get off this thing now!’<\/p>\n
Backing things up, whether the things are data, audio and\/or video files, isn’t an issue, because all of my data sits on the NAS.<\/p>\n
Obviously, my hardware is covered by maintenance contracts and, as a result, Mr Dell is booked to come and fit a new Hard Disk.<\/p>\n
So it’s not the data that has me hacked off, because everything is protected.<\/p>\n
And I mean ‘everything’ is protected. Everything. Right down to my bookmarks and favourites in various browsers.<\/p>\n
But what’s not protected, and will have to be reinstalled, are all of the applications.<\/p>\n
Some will be very easy to get installed, configured and up and running again.<\/p>\n
Some just won’t.<\/p>\n
And it’s the latter, the applications that have so many complex installation and authentication hoops to be jumped through, that are the real pain in this exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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