The Weather Station is working just fine, but the computer that transfers the data from the station to the Internet reported a fault. There were clusters going bad on the drive, and it wanted me to replace the drive when I could. I ordered an SSD drive, and now I have to work out how to mirror the original drive onto the SSD. I have tried a couple of methods that were supposed to be straightforward, but have turned out not to be because of drive lettering, and trying not to conflict with the C: drive of the computer I am attaching to. There were no SATA ports available in the Weather Computer as it is an all in one form factor, which I chose because it runs on low wattage, and takes up little space and only a single wall outlet. It was a good idea three years ago!
I am now trying a device that mirrors the drives inserted in it automatically, but seems to take days to do so. I remember using it once when I got it new some time ago, and it was the same schtick. It’s been running for 12 hours and does not even show 25% progress on the indicator lights.
I’ll update again if this works or not.
Operating correctly by Thanksgiving Day. New drive installed and everything made good. No records missed in the database.