I am Still Alive...but my Laptop Died.....

Yes indeed.
Hey Folks....a suggestion for everyone out there: BACKUP

Remember that word...espessially if you have important files on a computer that you do NOT want to loose....which is what happened to me.

My laptop started acting up early last week, so I decided to do a "System Restore" and roll back the operating system (Win XP Service pack 2) to an earlier date....which I have done a few times when errant software installs have made things buggy.

But I forgot to backup my files before hand. (I know...stupid!).
Well...the restore did not work and I couldnt get back into my operating system. I tried for hours and hours and no luck.
So I decided to give up and try and reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows.
ERRORS to the max and it wouldnt let me reinstall.

So here I was, stuck with a laptop that had no operating system, all my files (Journal, photos, websites, and tons of other stuff)....were all lost.

I ended up taking the laptop to Milwaukee PC to see if they could save the drive. No luck. The drive had failed.

They ended up putting in a new hard drive which set me back about 180.00.
The only good news is that they gave me a 60 Gig hard drive for the price of a 30 gig, so I have double the room I had before.

I have spent the last few days reinstalling apps, trying to reconstruct my journal (which I did mainly from my Blog posts) and I still have a ways to go.

I have the next two days off so this will be my major undertaking.

Happy Wed to all.......