The dreaded message : Invalid HDD. Insert system disk in drive. appeared yesterday morning.
My computer crashed, and PH (Swiss short-termer computer engineer) kindly came over the same afternoon for the diagnosis. He took out the drive, did other sorts of things, and found that it was the hard drive, not the computer itself (PTL for that at least). What was confusing is that the network computer at work also had the same message the day before and he was on the way to check that so we thought it may have been a virus.
So "all I have to do" is get a new hard drive. Luckily one of our missionaries is visiting Canada for a few weeks so I should be able to order something he can bring back; and I did back up 9 days ago; and I did keep this old laptop as a backup....
It's just a pain to recreate all those settings yet again.
