On Thu, 11 May 2017 09:07:37 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Bill W
wrote:


All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block
- I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old...

meanwhile, you're futzing with fixing windows rather than actually
doing useful stuff with the computer...

Exactly, and over several days this time. That PC was down for over a
week.

yikes.

It's my hobby computer - photography & music. I decided I could stay
away for a bit, and take my time finding a way to recover it without
losing any of the tedious work I had done between the most recent
drive image, and the failure. (I don't need a PC to golf.) I admit
that the actual work did take quite a bit of time, though. Probably
much more than a full day, which is just crazy. At the same time, I
did learn, or relearn quite a bit about this crap.