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Sat, Dec 29, 2007

XP Recovery

Posted at 10:31 pm MST to Technology

Earlier this week I updated VMWare to a newer version, and browsing from my XP virtual image stopped locking up my laptop. Today I restored my XP image (which had been rolled back to a snapshot from August) from a recent backup that includes most of the stuff I've been working on recently, including ClearConn and the eclipse installations. Microsoft Windows update is actually running instead of locking up the whole laptop instantly.

It took a long time to get things reset: I had to shuffle huge (12 Gig) tar files back and forth between the laptop and the server so that I didn't risk losing the working-but-old XP image in case the restored image still locked up. I think I need to clean out the older snapshots for the virtual image (since they are backed up anyway) and make a new one once the Windows update completes.

I really need to get to work recreating that lost ClearConn CGI script, though I have to admit a week of relatively little computing has been good for my eyes and arms.

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