Yep, It's Friday (Feb-11)

[MeatPounder]

Don't you do back ups either to dvd or a usb drive?

If you did you would simply use the install disk (or even better if you use a third party backup tool then their boot disk) and restore your whole system to the new hard drive...programs and all.

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Yesterday was the frustration day from hell. Turned on my computer to be greeted with the drive with my operating system had crashed. So drove into Frys in Las Vegas, bought two new hard drives. (they were on sale.)

Got home to have Windows tell me it couldn't find a partition on the drive it could install Windows on.

So back to Frys, returned the drives, bought a different one (Western Digital instead) and windows could install on that one. Got windows installed and that was all last night.

Woke up at 4:30am, thinking of the 100 programs I had to reinstall, and have been doing so. fortunately, I keep robo forms filler in a different file, so had copies of my passwords. Now I'm just installing.


I'm so behind. I'm just glad that other than a lot of time reinstalling, I didn't lose anything critical. But damn, I'd rather not be doing this.

Hope everyone is having a no drive crash day today!