Recent content by Mr Mo

Thanks again to everyone on this forum! I'm happy to report that I took your advice and bought a replacement hard drive. The technicians at our local computer store did the installation for free since I'm donating the laptop to a charity tomorrow. Case closed -- all is well. :-)

Thank you, everyone, for that excellent advice! But the mystery remains... This morning I created a simple text file (test.txt) using Windows Notepad. I saved it carefully in the Documents folder, and checked to make sure it was there. Rebooted. The file was gone, vanished as if it had never...

This is strange. My laptop doesn't remember any changes from one session to the next. I'm preparing to donate it to a local charity so I cleaned up my personal data: Deleted all files from the Documents folder. Deleted all files from the Pictures folder. Deleted all files from the Music...