PC blues
For a while now I have been planning on giving the home desktop PC a re-bore. There is a lot of crud that has built up over time with tried and rejected software dregs, neglected games, layers of system build-up and so on.
Well last night it decided to lend me a hand in my decision making. After being prompted for the 5th time to upgrade the antivirus software that I had been using, I decided to load up a newer version that I was no longer using from a different PC.
Everything was going fine until the first reboot. Just after the Windows logo screen disappeared there was a flash of BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and then the system rebooted again. I was able to restart in safe mode before and attempted a few systems restores but to no avail. After a few cycles of this I dropped back into the safe mode and started copying files. Just recently I had dropped in an old hard drive from an older PC which I am now using as a backup drive. This has turned out to be an unexpected blessing since I could easily move all data off the systems drive an put it on to the backup one.
So today I am back at ground zero. A clean install is in progress that I hope can be completed tonight. There is actually a lot to do particularly with all of the Microsoft updates that will be required to get the systems back up to a secured level.
I post an update when it is done.
