PC Problems

I suppose it is my own fault ... I upgraded our PC to Windows XP on Saturday morning. It all seemed to be working fine. Then Sunday morning it wouldn't boot ... or rather every time it did it would get to the "Welcome" screen and reboot itself then it would run a chkdsk and complain about bad sectors and dodgy data. I did what every person would do and panic, wondering when the last time I'd backed up all the precious data on the PC. Not since about a week after Mitch was born d'oh!

Fortunately after about 3 hours of messing around I managed to get it all going again (with a fresh install of Windows XP) and burned some more back up disks. Phew! All is okay. It seems the hard drive has some dodgy sectors and the Windows XP upgrade installed over those dodgy sectors so when it went to boot, all hell broke loose. Anyway, I did some more shopping today and bought a new hard drive and a couple of other bits and pieces (USB 2.0 and Firewire combo card) for those of you who want to know, so we will be able to connect our mobiles and the video camera to the PC and maybe even do some video editing although I'd need a whole new PC to do it properly ... don't tempt me ... maybe next year!

Actually it has been a computery weekend. Mum baby sat Mitch on Saturday which allowed Meeks and I to go on our first date (yay!) since the little guy was born. We went and saw Click at the movies. Quite entertaining, if a little unnecessarily and overly crude in a few places, though it did have a helpful message. As payment I fixed Mum's virus and spyware ridden laptop. Thank goodness for free products like ZoneAlarm, AVG Anti-virus, AdAware and SpyBot. For any of you people thinking about installing Norton Antivirus on a laptop running Windows XP with only 256Mb of RAM, let me give you some advice ... DON"T DO IT! Now she can connect to the family wireless network again and browse the three sites she visits - Yahoo for her email, Google and of course this little site. Hi mum!

Mitch is doing well. He slept from about 8pm last night until 5am this morning. What a good boy! He was of course ravenous when he woke up and pretty much inhaled his bottle. He's smiling a lot more readily now, which is just so cute. He is just starting to make sounds which aren't grizzles although each time he does he looks like he has just surprised himself and wonders how he did it and what he has to do to do it again. He's almost making a laughing noise, but I'm not sure it's a real laugh. He likes to play the "tongue poking out game". If you poke your tongue out at him he smiles and then tries to do it too. So cute!

Anyway, that's enough for today. No pictures, but I'll get more as soon as the PC at home is back working with the new Hard Drive, etc.