I'm switching some of labels over to waterproof labels and I finally got them on Friday. Sunday I turned my pc on to work on printing them up and was greeted by this lovely message...
no boot device available-
strike the f1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility
After an evening of frustration and a lot of worry that my hard drive had died on me, Monday morning I called an IT guy I know who took my machine and determined that some connection on my motherboard had gone bad and needs to be replaced. I was able to find and purchase one online but it won't be here until Monday... of course this had to happen during a holiday week, right?
In the meantime I'm stressing because I have a bunch of products that need to be labeled and I'm out of business cards and need to print them up. So, the IT guy was nice enough to put my soap stuff on a CD for me, I figure I can print from my laptop... yea, no.. my laptop had other ideas. I went to turn it on yesterday it somehow had picked up some nasty spyware or virus that was completely messing up my hard drive, I couldn't open any programs and couldn't uninstall this nasty guy. Finally I was able to boot into Safe Mode and did a system restore to the previous day then ran various spyware & virus removal programs to make sure it was all gone.
ok, problem solved, ready to print labels, right? yea, no... my laptop doesn't have the fonts installed that I'm using on my labels and business cards... d'oh
My new motherboard should be here on Monday, hopefully the IT guy can install it same day and I can get back in business.
Until then, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, I have a couple new soaps to take pictures of and post... both turned out really great, they smell and look great. I may even have more made by Monday.
Happy Turkey Day tomorrow!
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