Tuesday, May 9

I'm back!  

This is a quick note that hopefully lets everyone know I'm still alive.

I can't say that for my computer however. :-(

I'm on a new hard drive, and a new install of Windows 2003. Symantec AV screwed me over, and turned my nice machine into something looking like sludge (Bill A., if you're reading this, then you definately understand!) Then Roxio kept wanting to re-install Napster (Why? I took it out the first time!). I couldn't find my old CDs (I have since), and decided to run the next version, which I left running while I ran to a doctor's appointment. I was worried when I ran into JEA (the electric company) working on lines just down the road from my house.

Got back, and sure enough, they managed to drop the electricity to kill my machine and make sure I had to reset a bunch of clocks. But my machine wouldn't boot. It just (seemingly) hung. I turned off system reset on recovery, and had a BSOD. A bad driver (gee, you think so?).

I have replaced the wornout UPS with another UPS (batter is replaceable on the old one, which I will be doing), installed another hard drive (to try and rescue what I can from it, which I thought would be everything), got Windows 2003 reinstalled, and mostly configured. But when I wanted to get some data back, my one time trip with Sysinternal's ERD screwed me royal, as I no longer have a user profile. Not even a subdirectory. It has been changed into a 4 meg file. No inbox from my Thunderbird, nothing to be restored from my desktop. I got hosed. Tried to unerase anything, and it's gone. CHKDSK doesn't even show anything amiss, so I got raped with a big screw.

I'm currently trying to copy some data over (about 100 gigs - OK, that's done now) and have done what I can without rebooting with a bunch of installed stuff. Here's hoping that this works, after I publish this and do a reboot.

Here goes nothing.

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