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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mountain Man, post: 5237188, member: 94733&quot;]I&#039;m sorry to report the death of a close companion. It started in late March with a cough and then a slight temperature. It progressed to wheezing and blackouts. By the beginning of December, it was noticeably getting near the end. On Dec. 6, 2020, my computer died of Covid-19 complications.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that this virus isn&#039;t a laughing matter and I don&#039;t wish to be insensitive to those affected by it, but I thought it fit right in with problems many of us are having with this pandemic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my problems are few, and with old age comes health problems, so I shouldn&#039;t complain about this, but relying upon my computer to communicate with the outside world (I live isolated off the grid and no phone service) is at times vital to my survival. So, when my computer died, I had no way to let my friends and relatives know I was okay. My sister is convinced my life style will cost me my life, so if she doesn&#039;t hear from me, via email, every other day, she calls my friends to find out if I am alive, so having a working computer is a necessity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like many other things, I have back ups and more than one computer, as living off the grid one can&#039;t just run to the store at the drop of a hat, but it refused to &quot;connect&quot; to my Hughes Net modem no matter what I did, so my backup plan didn&#039;t work.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick trip to town and imploring a repair shop for a quick fix got my computer back the next day with a new hard drive. Unfortunately, they were unable to save any data from my dead hard drive. Luckily, I back up to an external drive weekly, so had my data. </p><p><br /></p><p>One might think it would be a simple thing to just transfer all of my data to the new hard drive. Nay, kind sir. Almost every program demanded a password and while I had a printed list of such, none would accept them, telling me they were incorrect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I started all over and managed to get my system back to what is normal for me. Back in business so I can put my &quot;two cents&quot; in on recent posts. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, my purpose in posting all of this, is to remind everyone to back up their data on a reliable platform regularly. An external drive or the cloud is probably the best way to go, but just do it on a regular basis and save yourself the headaches of loosing all of your data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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