Hi:
Doncha jus' luv computas? The only good description i ever heard of them that truly fits is that they are "dumb f--k genius machines". This was explained to me as meaning, “they don't know nuthin, but they shore is smart!” I think grammatically this is backwards but you probably see the point.
I just went through a hard drive meltdown at work. The best advise i can give everyone, is buy a CD-read/write drive and burn a copy of your important stuff on a RW disk each week. If it's your business machine do it every day. This is something IT managers have told us to do for years and I’m sure you’ve all been told this as well. But I hadn’t done it for the past 6 months or so, “too busy”, so of course I lost 6 months of email, handy forms, spreadsheets, letters and etceteras when my drive went down. The irony is that the drive died while our computer geek was trying to make a mirror of it prior to reformatting. I didn’t make a backup of it the night before because I knew he was going to do one the following day before he did anything else……….sigh…..who knew?
Well, the gods of PC mania knew! So, back your stuff up boys and girls.
On a more helpful note, if you REALLY need the information on the drive, I have the address of a place in California that recovers information off of dead hard drives. They are currently batting .667 on drives that we have sent them over the years. I’ll be happy to send it to you on Monday when I go back to the office, just let me know.
Oh, one bright spot from my current downcycle in the ol’ yin/yang o’ life. I’ve been using a PDA for about 8 months and I sync it with both my work and home computers each day. Didn’t loose any of my 1224 addresses, task lists or calendar information. If only I could get my favorites list to properly transfer! Have to rebuild that from scratch.
Good luck,
Ted