Windows 10 boots up. Of course I still have to reinstall all the dozens of applications that I had working three days ago. The vast majority were free, so there are no license keys to hunt down. It will still be a bit of work, but all the installers are on the 1TB hard drive to which they backed up my SSD, so it should be a pretty simple if slow process. Then I system image everything to a 1 TB hard disk that I have lying around so that I can boot from it if I ever have a disaster like this again.
My annual membership with Geek Squad is well worth it.
But what pain it is reinstalling everything, discovering that stuff that I thought that I bought was apparently an annual subscription, but no longer valid because I did a fresh install; stuff that is no longer supported such as the WD MyCloud software which is now replaced by Acronis True Image, no easier to use but different.
Have you ever amortized all of the time and money that you have spent on keeping Windows machines running? I currently use a 2006 Macbook Pro and a 7 year old Mac desktop. Not. One. Problem. In my entire use of either of them.
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