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Originally Posted by mophilly
Thank you for comments.
In this case, I discovered that the backup process had been disabled nearly a year ago, when the hard drive was replaced with an SSD. I am generally more on top of this sort of thing but failed for this system.
Another suggestion offered is to create a new boot partition, and install High Sierra in that. I am looking into that. A VM would be far easier in some ways but I take your advice.
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Suggestion:
When you get things back up and running buy Carbon Copy Cloner, an external hard drive, and make regular backups of your system. It'll save your butt in cases like this. Don't use Time Machine for backups. And power down that external drive when you're done making your backup.
For reasons that Sardi mentioned a VM is a nightmare. Don't do it. Or you could use Bootcamp and run PT in Windows.