[Magdalen] Computer woes

[P. Dan Brittain]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

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> Yes - after all, the drive you bought will have nothing whatsoever on it.
> You'll also have to format it and partition it (if desired). The recovery
> disks (Windows 7?) should cover this. Remove the old drive and replace it
> with the new one.
>

New disk is in; powered up. Now, I can't get past the first screen.
Software for the mouse is not on, of course. But I can't figure out how to
navigate to get things started. Tab doesn't seem to advance anything, nor
do the ctrl/alt/windows, keys go to the highlighted tab of start now. Enter
button doesn't do anything.

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> You'll also need the install disks for all your programs (e. g.,
> MSOffice), and will need to reinstall those.


The recovery disk is supposed to bring things back to factory defaults.



> Backups typically don't back that stuff up - only stuff you've created
> (docs, music, pictures, etc.).
>

Understand that about the weekly backup.

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> And you'll need to set aside a fair amount of time to do all this.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> I appear to need the luck.

Thanks



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