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[ddebloisri]

I downloaded and installed MC 26 and all went well. Everything was working great. I was doing some other things on the laptop and decided to reboot it. That is when things went south. It did not and will not boot up. Cannot bypass normal boot up procedure either. I am pretty sure that it is dead.  So I installed a saved backup of MC 25, but it cannot find the server. I suspect it because I already migrated to MC 26.
Can someone help me around this issue. I am not very tech savey. Pretty much at the end of my skills.

[Dawgincontrol]

I've got to ask; how did you install MC25 if you can't boot the computer?

For someone to attempt to help you, you need to give more info, such as what version of WIndows are you running.  How did you attempt to bypass normal boot? 

[ddebloisri]

Thanks for the response.
I was using an old IBM Thinkpad running Windows 10. I tried to buypass normal startup by pressing the blue Thinkvantage key. When that did not work I tried the F1 key and another attempt pressing the F2 key.

Before installing MC 26 I backed up MC25 to OneNote. When the Thinkpad fritzed, I opened Onenote from another laptop and installed MC 25.

[Gio300ZX]

When the Thinkpad fritzed, I opened Onenote from another laptop and installed MC 25.

I'm no expert but this leaves some questions:

• If the Thinkpad is fritzed, this implies it doesn't work and you installed MC 25 on something else. Is that right?
• If so, on what?
• If so, what server are you looking for?
• Another server on another machine?

[ddebloisri]

Correct, the Thinkpad does not work.
Before installing 26 I backed up 25. When the Thinkpad quit, I installed the backup of 25 on an Acer Aspire laptop running Windows 10 Home. When opening 25 my library is empty.
Cannot find Server was an error message I first received, but I no longer see that error. When the system does the automatic file import I get the message that there are no files to add to the library

[BryanC]

Check the wiki topic "moving files." You will need to update the MC database to point to the new file locations if your drive letter has changed.

[ddebloisri]

BryanC,
Under Library Tools this is what appears "no files selected"

[BryanC]

An MC backup does not backup the actual media files, only the library database. Where are the media files located?

[ddebloisri]

Am I correct in assuming that the files are located on the laptop that is no longer working?

[BryanC]

Yes. It's possible that you can remove the drive from the Thinkpad and use an external SATA to USB connector to connect it to your working machine in order to retrieve your media. If the cause for your Thinkpad to die was a bad drive then the media may be lost. If it was simply a software or some other hardware error then it is recoverable.