Well, that was an unexciting experience. The motherboard of my machine was well-and-truly dead, and (being an older generation) can't just be replaced one-for-one with a newer one. By the time they added in all the necessary replacement components, it was getting quite close to the cost of a new machine anyway, so I told them to just move the old hard drives out of the old one and add them to the new one.
At least all my data files have survived, although I'll need to re-install all my applications. It could have been worse.
The tricky part may be the iTunes software I need for synching my iPhone (unlike my old Treo, you can't synch to multiple PCs). The default behaviour is for iTunes to overwrite the contents of the device when you connect for the first time: this would be bad, in this case.
Posted by Nicholas at February 16, 2009 11:06 AM
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