Caution Rant. This blog is late due to a Windows update.
Last night Windows gave me an ultimatum. Update now or update in an hour. No if, ands, or buts.
I hit the button and launched the update.
All the talk about faster Windows updates and a kinder Microsoft is just talk.
The update took an hour. This is on a couple of year old computer running a core I7 CPU with 256 of solid state disk. It is not a ten year old machine. The connections is Spectrum cable and it still took an hour. If your in the middle of a presentation this is a killer.
The update didn’t end in a endless loop like previous updates. It did complete. I have a traveling computer so I was not down for the hour the update took. Smaller screen and a slower processor slowed work on the travel computer.
After the update, I tried a couple of programs to check out the update. When I fired up the word processor. I could not access the external hard drive. It’s a Western Digital, four terabyte, hard drive. The computer could not find the USB external hard drive.
Device Manager would not show the hard drive being connected. The computer would beep when the hard drive was plugged in, but the drive would not show up in file explorer or in device manager.
I fooled around for ten minutes and then hit restart. Still no external hard drive. Worried I plugged the external hard drive into travel computer. It worked so I did not have a SDF (sudden device failure).
Being lazy and not wanting to spend years to become a windows expert I sat down and tried to think of someone I could call. At a hundred dollars an hour for a service technician I could go buy a new hard drive (on special).
I fought with computer, off on on, for a couple of hours then went to bed.
Next day I fired up the computer and the external hard drive worked.
Stay strong, write on, and make voodoo dolls of Bill Gates.
Professor Hyram Voltage