Its akin to pulling out your finger nails with pliers but finally I have done it. When your computer takes 5 mins from boot to get to a point where you can use it and you have to click ok three times through errors you know its time to reformat your hard disk.
USB2 had turned back into USB1, I was getting read / write errors all the time and little messages about software I had never heard of. Sick to the back teeth of searching for adware or virus scanning I had to give in. Trouble is I had about 20 DVD’s of backups (general non vital stuff) to do first, but with a Saturday and Sunday spare I wrote off my weekend!!
I am now finally up and running again (must get another external HD) with the only significant issue is a load of documents I had encrypted and forgot to decrypt before the change.
Well worth the agro though, its like having a new PC and finally the nightmare ’s over (until about this time next year when Windows dies again)! I think the Mac fan boys might be finally winning me round to the dark side. Mmm OSX…….
