Last Wednesday I was working at the Connection Cafe when my laptop froze up and didn’t come back up when I tried to reboot it. Instead it ran Windows’ version of “check disk” and found and supposedly fixed some errors, but the laptop wouldn’t come back up. Major hard drive crash. Argghhhh!

I was there to meet with Kent Milholland and asked him if he recommended anyone for laptop repair, and he referred me to Your Computer Friends. I dropped off my laptop that afternoon. Long story short, Your Computer Friends had to restore Windows Vista, meaning I had to reinstall all of my programs, but they were able to restore my data to a “Restored Files” directory, meaning not only did I not lose any data, but I didn’t have to restore from Carbonite, which would have taken a good while.

If you are not using an online backup system like Carbonite or something similar, start today. Hmmm. I just realized I need to set Carbonite up on my restored PC!

Thanks, Your Computer Friends! I hope I don’t have to see you anytime soon though!!

I realized sometime on Thursday that someone I had had lunch with the previous week probably fixed laptops too, so I’ll give a shout out to Craig Fortenbury and CMIT Solutions.  They “can completely offload the burden of troubleshooting, securing, and maintaining your computer network for a very affordable monthly rate.”