Two steps forward and one step back...

(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.
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Oddly appropriate

2012 Nehmiah Scudder elected President of US