Frustrations
Great. I come home today to find my main PC won’t boot 
So here I am typing this on my laptop while the Windows XP recovery processes “do their thing” on my main machine, in the hope I can get the thing to boot without reinstalling the lot.
Good thing I take regular backups, so this is a nuscence rather than a disaster, but it’s a nuscence I don’t need right now.
Unfortunately this means I am currently unable to access most of my email accounts, and unable to do any work on the ECC website.
Edit
Sorted it. If only had had said something like “Failure to boot from USB” I’d have found the problem earlier, and realised the solution which didn’t involve running Windows recovery… I’d left my USB Pendrive plugged in and it tried to boot from it. Unfortunately I’ve now got to run through the whole recovery process anyway which will take a little while and will probably require me to go back and reinstall a load of drivers etc. Hopefully someone can learn from this.
