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[Joe Zeff]

On 12/22/2011 05:23 PM, jdow wrote:
> Get a cheap replacement drive and install fresh on it. See if that works.

Until last month when Social Security kicked in, I had no income. 
Literally.  A "cheap replacement drive" is still a big chunk of my 
monthly income, not to be considered lightly, especially when you 
consider that I need to save up to upgrade my desktop.  And, as I 
commented in another post, neither of my computers is currently willing 
to burn a CD.  One principle that I always used when I was doing tech 
support applies here: try not to throw somebody else's money at a problem.