I had gotten software installed and data moved onto the new laptop.  Yesterday I tried to boot it and had a big blue screen.  Yay.  Now it is acting like it can't find the hard drive although it was able to tell me that it sees Windows on C:.  It was only indicating 200 GB when what I was 'sold' from work was 500 GB, but I suspect they swapped drives after a bit of a "recall".  I'm exasperated and irritated.  I can open my old laptop, but it currently has limited protection as I have moved my license for Malwarebytes and you need to be able to get in to disable it on one computer to move it around.

These shenanigans wasted my time yesterday and prevented me from getting some research done that I wanted to do. It also means I lost the notes on the research I did on the flooring and including the questions I jotted down.  Theoretically it shouldn't be too painful to recreate these notes.

Back to work today.  I'm wishing I took the whole week.  At least it is a short week.  Wish me luck.