Yay! The new clean install is OK, I'm still connected to the Internet and the old data is still there on a different disk.
Also my hard disk didn't die.
I'm marking this as 'solved'. :)
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Yay! The new clean install is OK, I'm still connected to the Internet and the old data is still there on a different disk.
Also my hard disk didn't die.
I'm marking this as 'solved'. :)
Lol, maybe. But AFTER I get it backed up, kthxbai.
Seriously though the disk errors that were causing the problems seem to be three file linkage problems and one bad sector.
Progress Update.
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