I’ve added another quotation to my signature line, from Captain Jack Sparrow. I’ve been replacing a failing hard drive in my desktop PC, restoring image files, using robocopy on some stuff, etc. I’ve made it much more difficult than need be by my being unable to see the forest for the trees in a couple of what should be routine procedures.
As the drive in question has 2 primary partitions and 5 logical drives, naturally it skewed my drive letters when I was using robocopy, but I was expecting that and sorted it out easily enough. But once I had the drive in place, I started getting boot failures. The solution was a simple registry fix, but I was totally focused on hardware and cables and connectors and all sorts of other things that were not in any way involved in the boot failures.
Which brought to mind the quote from Captain Jack: “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Savvy?” I didn’t then, but I do now.
