THE CLOCKS GO BACK TONIGHT
. I dare say you know whether you are among that mass or not (waves at exceptions:Life is pretty good at the moment, except that the hard disk drive on my main machine has been giving severe problems. Currently I am rebooting and it gets stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data". Thanks to
I have created a Windows 98 boot disk using http://www.bootdisk.com/ and booted from it; it stuck in the same place as before for a good couple of minutes or so but eventually went to an A:\ prompt. I attempted to run sys c: from the floppy as directed but it reports that "Invalid media type reading drive C". That's worrying. I have a suspicion that the hard disk is very very ill after it had previously taken close to 20 hours to SCANDISK while booting, but it eventually did boot at normal speed a couple of times and I was able to run SCANDISK from Windows through successfully a few times, both standard and full versions, and concluded that I was clear.
I have backups dating from early August, but I'd really rather not use them. This may be a trip-to-the-computer-shop job, especially if people are going to make worrying suggestions like physically taking the hard drive out of the machine and connecting it to another computer. *looks pleadingly*
Happy last-day-of-October, especially if you are