Bit of disk corruption splattered all my emails in Thunderbird.  Fortunately most were still there in Google Mail, and I had a backup (from May) of the profile, and I managed to rebuild most of it.

However after rebooting into Windows, I got the message “This copy of Windows is not genuine” on the desktop. Knowing this isn’t the case, I ran the Windows Genuine Advantage tool. “Thank you for using the tool,” it said “and thank you for using genuine Microsoft software”. But guess what – the message still hasn’t gone away…

Reformatting my C: drive into ReiserFS is getting more tempting by the day. (Oh and don’t hibernate to reboot into another operating system, by the way – that way disk corruption lies…)

Tags: Microsoft, Thunderbird, Windows Genuine Advantage, Windows Vista

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