Windows Woes

Windows Woes

A corrupt file escalated into a Windows XP reinstall last night which put the laptop out of commission for an hour. A great sigh of relief when my data and settings seemed to have survived. But now the laptop keeps demanding that I reformat my flash drive, which works just fine on my backup machine (an old Pentium 3 450 running XP on 384 meg memory). I also seem to be using about 100 meg more of memory running XP than I did pre-crash, so maybe some hidden tweak got untweaked.

I suppose I could put some more work in on the Linux Box, which is functioning mostly as a clock at the moment.