Thanks to Snoo Tea this entry was made from my personal laptop (Tinkerbell) with its new hard drive!! The story involved:
Discovery - Snew Tea took out the new hard drive, looked at it put it back in & looked at the BIOS. It didn’t see the drive. Took it out again to read the information on the drive, put it back in and the BIOS saw it! Quickly we inserted the Windows XP SP1 OS restore disc supplied with the computer. It started installing!!!! I was able to log-on. Hooray!
Diagnosis - the drive wasn’t held in close-enough contact with the machine connectors by the Laptop casing. So we put some buffering material in place (bubble-wrap) to hold the drive in contact with the connectors and fastened up the casing.
Download and Installed
- Driver recovery package (CD came with the computer)
- Phonecall to activate XP SP1
- critical OS updates
- XP SP2
- antivirus
- anti-spyware
- anti-malicious-software
- Camera drivers (Canon Website)
- Office 2003 (and activated it)
- Office critical updates
- MSN Messenger 7.5
- photographs from my camera to my network drive
Tinkerbell is back to full health
Wendy full-happy-service-resumed
I had only visited America 2 times before emmigrating. Once for a job interview. Once to find a place to live. I arrived one week before I started my job. The experience was overwhelming. Temporary accomodation, jet lag, driving on the wrong side of the road in a hire car, finding things in supermarkets, finding supermarkets!
On the first day of my job I had to really concentrate. It was hard. My manager introduced me to many friendly new colleagues. Then a special moment memorable even 5 years later.
Manager said ’she’s form Britain too’
Her first words were "we must go out for a beer sometime’
She emanated comfort, fun, cheekines, and promised something dear to my heart. Beer.
She kept her promise.
We regularly attended a Pub quiz in an English Pub run by a couple from Newcastle. Good beer (Bass, Marston’s Pedigree).
We once escaped to a dude ranch together. Horse riding in the high planes.
A year later she moved to New York. Tonight she’s visiting the North West. I havent seen her in nearly 4 years.
A special treat for me. I’m going to a ‘cocktail party’ she’s attending. I wont know anyone there. That’s scarey. Pretty dress coming out of the closet! She’s such an exceptional lady that just being in the same room as her will feel good. I’m so lucky to know these people who explore life fully and give openly to the people they meet.
W
