And...we're back. Well almost. [We still don't have all of our pictures back on the home computer since HP made a complete mess of the repair. Fortunately and very, very sadly, this was entirely anticipated, so Daddy removed the hard drive and backed up the pictures manually. Kind of makes it curious that HP insists the drive was dead-on-arrival (and hence no data transfer was performed) but that $20 and a trip to Fry's Electronics encountered no such problems. I guess "I'm too inconsiderate/lazy/ignorant to actually try to perform the data migration" does indeed make the drive DOA. But I digress...] More tales and tails to report in the coming days.
