Elvira Lives!!!

[fluffymark]

She has been resurrected! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! I saved all the documents, and they didn't disappear down black holes and the email works and MS Office works. That's good enough for now. I can sleep peacefully.

Most annoying part: Deltree takes 2 hours to delete the windows folder. And can't be stopped once it's started. Looks like it may have been much quicker to reformat the thing.

Thanks to all the dozens and dozens of helpful comments and emails - they've been invaluable. Promise I'll stop going on about geeky things now.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Glad to hear it!

[fluffymark]

Hooray!

Yes, your CD worked happily once i'd deleted WIN.COM from every drive. I'm assuming you'll want it back at some point? :)

*thankyouhugs*

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

(now I just need to get used to it not feeling like my computer (since its lost all the settings I am used to) and the fact that the @ and the " seem to have swopped places).
New computer soon then it will all feel like home again.
But

[fluffymark]

Yaaaaay! Let me know if you want me to sort the rest of it out. The @/" swap is a US/British keyboard thing and easily corrected. But if you're replacing Elvira soon it's not worth fixing anything that isn't an immediate problem. :)

Re:

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

I fixed it!! Alls well and good now.