M$ SCREEN OF DEATH
Today’s hiatus from politics is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft and their infamously crappy update process which scrambled a portion of their equally dodgy Windows 10 operating system.
I use backup and recovery software and perform a nightly backup, saving critical legal or financial files to another location when created.
So, when this minor annoyance struck, I attempted to repair the system but couldn’t get the system to do anything after logon but display a black screen with a flashing system tray at the bottom.
I tried an alternate account login and booting into safe mode, but no joy was found in either effort.
I booted my system from a bootable removable drive with recovery software and set about backing up the damaged system in situ for further investigation. This is an extremely time-consuming process.
After the hours-long process, it is my intention to copy some selected directories to an external drive before restoring yesterday’s validated backup. Then, on to restoring select data files to bring the system current to today — and soldier on after another backup.
UPDATE: Validated backups indicating corrupt index — new plan required.
In the meantime, I will do some further research on Vivek Ramaswamy, who I believe is an opportunistic poseur kissing Donald Trump’s ass for a position in his Administration if he should win. Otherwise, boost his own name brand which he will use to monetize his ventures. In my opinion, he appears to be an inexperienced man not to be trusted with our nation’s affairs.
Bottom line…
M$hit happens and we are so screwed.
— Steve
“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”
“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell “Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar “Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS