A couple of days ago I couldn’t open Firefox. I gritted my teeth, pulled up IE, kept unsuccesfully trying to browse with nonexistent IE tabs, and eventually found what I thought was the problem. There had just been a Firefox update, and obviously there was a conflict somewhere. Maybe it was a firewall issue. Maybe something else. I’ll just go check my email while I try to work this out and… <\/p>\n
…my email won’t open. Outlook can’t read my email data file. Thunderbird still works though. Well, I have a couple of years worth of emails in the Outlook file, maybe I can work it out, but this looks like it’s going to take a while, so I’ll just put on some music, which goes fine…<\/p>\n
…until we hit a song it can’t play. Eventually my boot drive wouldn’t even boot anymore due to corrupted files in the OS, and at this point it looks like the whole drive is imploding. Luckily I have a 2nd, larger drive that was being used as a backup. This drive seems fine, but I had to install the OS on it, update it for a couple of hours, reinstall all my drivers, etc, etc.<\/p>\n
I can still access some of the stuff on the old drive, and I’m in the process of pulling over what I can from that sinking ship. I’m taking this opportunity to try and clean up my file system, the old drive is a mess of junk that’s been piled on top of other junk for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of days ago I couldn’t open Firefox. I gritted my teeth, pulled up IE, kept unsuccesfully trying to browse with nonexistent IE tabs, and eventually found what I thought was the problem. There had just been a Firefox … Continue reading