Oi, well today I relearned my lesson: don't neglect your backups, even for two weeks. Just booted windows to see it shows nothing on my screen, it refused to start, and the "Windows Startup Repair" kept trying to 'rollback' a corrupt registry (hooray for stupid design decisions that they STILL haven't fixed!) So, my latest backup is two weeks old (that's not so bad, except when you're missing 40-50GB of data...), and it's going to be a lot of fun getting it all back...
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