Some less then ideal news.....
My laptop has died....
Last friday, it wouldn't start up again. Yesterday, I took it to the IT department at the office, as the laptop is also my work computer. They could not fix it.
I requested them to save the data on my harddisks (an SSD for the main directory, and a more classic harddisk for secondairy data storage), but something went wrong there....
It is policy here to encript all computers with a Bitlocker code; if you put a harddisk into another computer, you have to fill in the recovery-code to acces the data. Two months ago, my laptop was 'upgraded' from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and the Bitlocker encription was also re-done. And now the fuck-up by the IT-department: they did not register the new codes.
So when they put the SSD and Harddisk into another machine, the code request came up, and they could not find the codes in the system, making the two storage devices in essence scrap metal.
So.... Everything I did in the past two weeks is lost.
I saved the SSD and Harddisk, should I find any way to get around Bitlocker, but there isn't much hope.
Sad point is that I had vacation these last two weeks, and so have spend a lot of time on building for Metrosimulator; finishing the ICM, and building a secondary route between Ypenburg and Zeeburg for non-HSL trains.... (which was already completed, and just required building activities!!)
It also featured 3 new stations: Molensloot, Waaldorp and Poelwijk.
I will try to re-do the ICM project, based on a backup from 2,5 weeks ago I stored on an external harddisk (which I did not take with me on vacation
), but the extra railwayline to Zeeburg is lost; it would take too much time to re-do that, and my vacation is over now.
These two screenshots came from the new line. The only thing that remains now.... (unless a Bitlocker workaround can be found):
Between Poelwijk and Waaldorp:
Kasteel Molensloot / Château Moulinsart / Marlinspike Hall (from the Kuifje / Tintin books by Hergé):
I have got a new laptop now.... I'll need to re-install the simulator and all my other software all over again, and then get my backup from 2,5 weeks ago...