hate that happened to you - advice - take to a dhop quick Posted: Feb 13th, 2016 - 11:58 pm In Reply to: You were right! - Linda
I also had one to die that was only 3 years old and had oodles of room on it, and it died after a couple of blue screens.
I should have thought to tell you a temporary solution I used at the time. I rented a computer from Rent A Center for a month. I keep my work stuff on my Yahoo email account so I was able to pull in my license to Shorthand on the rental. When I started having problems, I emails myself a copy of all my Shorthand abbreviation files. I had my Word and other software on hand, so I only lost one day of down time.
I took my computer to a shop for a new hard drive and took my Windows XP software to load so I didn't have to pay a new license for the operating system.
Once I got my computer back, I just transferred everything from the rental computer back to my new hard drive and was back in business. I did a system restore to manufacturer install on the rental and returned it to RAC.
I have now had the new hard drive in my computer for three years and recently bought a laptop because I have been thinking I need something not XP to work on. I have a cloud service available on my laptop that I uploaded my HD contents to, so in case of a dead hard drive, I can access everything on my laptop.
Sounds like you are more tech savvy than I am, but I've learned over the years that computers just die at the worst times so it helps to be prepared.
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