The annual Norton System Tools update time came round again this morning, so I disconnected my computer from the Internet and deleted the 2008 copy in readiness to install a complete new copy.
That was when I discovered that my DVD drive had gone kaput. So, off to the big retail park outside Swansea. PC World had sold out. Maplins had a drive but they also had a very good offer on a 22x external drive. Graham said that, since I’ve been talking for some while of upgrading my system, the external drive would be a better idea.
Done.
Back home, we discovered that the new drive didn’t work with my system, either. Much cursing and cussing.
So, over to Graham’s computer for research. Nothing wrong with the new drive. Nothing wrong with the old drive, either.
Questions to Graham’s techie friends around the world.
“It’s a known Vista fault,” came the answer, along with a short script of how to correct the problem in the Registry.
Soon done, and the new drive is whizzing around happily, and has done a fair amount of work, enough to persuade me that it’s fit and happy again.
It took all day, though.
Pesky computers.
