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Backups Are In Order

I spent much of the day helping Larry get his notebook computer running again. It has XP Home on it, and Tuesday morning it wouldn't start up because of a corrupted startup file. He didn't have an XP Home startup disk, so I didn't even try to repair/replace the corrupted file, but instead did something different. We pulled the drive from his computer, and placed it in a drive chassis with a PCMCIA card so we could plug it into another notebook computer (thanks Dale!). With that done we copied off all of his date file, then re-installed his drive in his notebook, and ran the restore CD. It was a bit of a fight figuring out how to remove the CD drive, but once we did things went well. His most recent backup was about February 6, so he was glad we had success today. Let that be a reminder to everyone to back up quite often. Anyway, Larry is with a different mission, works on Bible translation, and I was happy to be able to help him recover some important files.