Well the old Dell Inspiron 1150 stopped booting and silly me I didn’t have the administration password for the recovery console.
So it is out with the OS and reinstall time.
This is always a pain in the neck but thanks to my wife’s thoughtful give of an external hard drive last year everything is backed up.
So the rest of the night will be moving files and installing drivers, but that’s what a tech guy does.
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