i tell you, there's something to that whole "Living a Clean Life".
i'm repairing a PC for someone on the side. It was dying at boot with a bad media error. He thought it was a virus. i loaded a runtime version of Kubuntu, salvaged as much data as i could off of it and set about doing some repair work.
Booted to Windows recovery mode, ran chkdsk /f on it, it found and repaired the bad sectors, rebuilt the boot sector and rebooted the box.
It came up fresh and clean as if nothing was ever wrong with it.
i'm tempted to tell the guy to go buy a lottery ticket while he's on the streak.
Yes, i'm installing Firefox on it as the default browser, as well as making sure his copy of Avast is up-to-date. (Yep, he was running it.) i'm also going to let it fetch new drivers and other updates, but seriously, i don't think i have EVER had a computer recover like this.
What I am saying is that at the end of Not Quite Human 2, Chip the Android copied and stored an entire person's consciousness in his magnetic fingertip before they died so he could bring them back as a robot, and I wish I could do that too.
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How lucky is that, man! I'd tried everything up to (and including) putting my g/f's dead drive in the freezer and I've gotten exactly bupkis out of it. It'd be a miracle just to get her old documents and digital photos off it at this point.