Two steps forward and one step back...
Nov. 6th, 2020 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengr(to give you and idea how messed up I'm feeling, I origianly had the subject line backwards. Oy)
Any, the new SSD arrived today, about the time I'd beaten the computer into submission with its temporary drive C:. In the process, I'd found that I actually *had* an image backup of the system that was only 2 days old. I hadn't realized that the Windows image backups were still working If I had, I'd have done pone more before tearing things apart.
So I got the new drive in, booted for the Windows install DVD and told it to repair the computer. Since I could point it at image backup, this was merely time consuming. I don't want to think abut how long it might have taken with a normal drive.
Once that was finished it was time to close up the case and move the system back to the semi-inaccessible corner of the desk from where I'd been working on it. This was lots of fun (NOT!)
Since then it's been a lot of using Beyond Compare to see which files on Drive C needed to be replaced with more recent files from the backups on drive D (a partial file by file backup that runs once a day)
I was also able to use a USB SATA docking bay to access files on the old drive C (for a while anyway) that got a lot of stuff replaced, though in some cases I had to replace those with files from drive D when Beyond compare showed that they were corrupted.
Meanwhile on the backup system, I'd got it configured to be able to access my bank without a lot of alarms going off (It normal runs on a VPN, so it'd look like I was connecting from some foreign country. Not good if you don't want your account to get locked as a "precaution")
Alas, after seeing that my social security had indeed deposited, I started paying bills. Pay all but one bill online. More on *that* in a bit.
I'd paid a couple, then I went to pay the rent on my storage locker. Not sure how it happened, but I accidentally told it I was paying for *two* months. and did get a seperate "confirm" page after I clicked. So suddenly there's this *very* wrong payment going thru.
After a frantic call to my bank (if you swap 2 digits of there number it's the number for some outfit is probably telemarketers. Guess how I know this) I got a appeal logged. Then in the morning, I called the storage place, got got bounced around a bit and then got called back later with the news they'd rejected the payment and I'd have to pay again.
That's what I'll be doing in a bit (had to wait for the bank to list it as a pending transaction).
However in the meantime, I went to write the check for *my* rent. Only way to pay the outfit that runs the apartments is a check or money order.
And I discovered that last month I'd used up the last check on the pad. So I need to get a new pad from the box of checks. Which was... where exactly?
Remember the rent is the *only* thing I use checks for. And there are 25 checks in a pad. That meant it had been *two years* since I'd last needed the box. I've spent hours looking in all the obvious and not so obvious places.
Tomorrow I buy a money order before doing more searching.
*sigh* the apartment needed cleaning anyway.
As if the dust inside the computer wasn't giving me enough problems already... :-(
Any, the new SSD arrived today, about the time I'd beaten the computer into submission with its temporary drive C:. In the process, I'd found that I actually *had* an image backup of the system that was only 2 days old. I hadn't realized that the Windows image backups were still working If I had, I'd have done pone more before tearing things apart.
So I got the new drive in, booted for the Windows install DVD and told it to repair the computer. Since I could point it at image backup, this was merely time consuming. I don't want to think abut how long it might have taken with a normal drive.
Once that was finished it was time to close up the case and move the system back to the semi-inaccessible corner of the desk from where I'd been working on it. This was lots of fun (NOT!)
Since then it's been a lot of using Beyond Compare to see which files on Drive C needed to be replaced with more recent files from the backups on drive D (a partial file by file backup that runs once a day)
I was also able to use a USB SATA docking bay to access files on the old drive C (for a while anyway) that got a lot of stuff replaced, though in some cases I had to replace those with files from drive D when Beyond compare showed that they were corrupted.
Meanwhile on the backup system, I'd got it configured to be able to access my bank without a lot of alarms going off (It normal runs on a VPN, so it'd look like I was connecting from some foreign country. Not good if you don't want your account to get locked as a "precaution")
Alas, after seeing that my social security had indeed deposited, I started paying bills. Pay all but one bill online. More on *that* in a bit.
I'd paid a couple, then I went to pay the rent on my storage locker. Not sure how it happened, but I accidentally told it I was paying for *two* months. and did get a seperate "confirm" page after I clicked. So suddenly there's this *very* wrong payment going thru.
After a frantic call to my bank (if you swap 2 digits of there number it's the number for some outfit is probably telemarketers. Guess how I know this) I got a appeal logged. Then in the morning, I called the storage place, got got bounced around a bit and then got called back later with the news they'd rejected the payment and I'd have to pay again.
That's what I'll be doing in a bit (had to wait for the bank to list it as a pending transaction).
However in the meantime, I went to write the check for *my* rent. Only way to pay the outfit that runs the apartments is a check or money order.
And I discovered that last month I'd used up the last check on the pad. So I need to get a new pad from the box of checks. Which was... where exactly?
Remember the rent is the *only* thing I use checks for. And there are 25 checks in a pad. That meant it had been *two years* since I'd last needed the box. I've spent hours looking in all the obvious and not so obvious places.
Tomorrow I buy a money order before doing more searching.
*sigh* the apartment needed cleaning anyway.
As if the dust inside the computer wasn't giving me enough problems already... :-(
