Holy thread revival, Batman
, jimtherev's sagacious prediction was right! Our poor 10-year-old Toshiba laptop bricked three weeks ago
We couldn't even get into DOS command level to attempt a reboot, so I'm unsure as to whether the fault lies on the HDD or the motherboard.
We broke down and invested in a new machine and, boy, has technology made a quantum leap forward in the last decade! Fortunately, I had had the presence of mind to back up all of our documents and photographs to thumb drives as well as Microsoft's OneDrive. As much as they're a company we love to hate, it was certainly a welcome wonder to find a terabyte of valuable data backed up and intact in the cloud! I really appreciate all the good advice given by my fellow Prooners.
Now if I can just find cheap copies of Word and Office....
- Ed