Congrats Barb.  I got a new one in December and I love the portability.  I 
know they're more fragile but nevertheless, There's a lot to be said for 
laptops.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: off topic


> Hi. Am excited because am using my new laptop, a dell 1525 I bought from a
> guy on the vr stream list.  It works like a charm.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: off topic
>
> I just wanted to tell you a story about my misadventure and it's solution.
> About a month ago, I suddenly couldn't backup or restore my boot drive,
> because of a bad sector or sectors on the hard drive.  Now normally you
> choose chkdsk and have it repair and exclude bad sectors, the system
> reboots, fixes the errors and returns you to windows.  I run spybot, which
> installs a program called t-timer.  Now t-timer, sees any change to your
> settings or starting software, and asks you to accept or deny the change.
> Well, when running chkdsk, this dialog popped up just as windows was
> shutting down.  Therefore their wasn't time to navigate the dialog, check
> the boxes, before the computer shut down.
> Well, I was planning to buy partition and install a new hard drive.  This
> morning, I ran chkdsk, but before doing so, I turned off t-timer from
> msconfig.  Now everything worked the hard drive was repaired, and I have a
> new backup made this afternoon.  Now even if this drive crashes, I have 
> all
> my setup in this computer as of noon today.
>
> I don't know why I didn't see the solution sooner, but just to tell the
> story if any of you run in to a problem like mine.
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor