Archive for November 27th, 2006

I’m so sad…my computer crashed this weekend and I lost everything I had stored on it! We have an external hard drive, and yet I was so lax and didn’t back up my documents and pictures. This ought to teach me a valuble lesson. Don’t do what I did, make sure you’ve backed everything up!

I also made a mistake. I reinstalled Windows XP, instead of doing a recovery and now my computer is all caddywampus. I am afraid I’m going to have to bring it to a professional to get back everything I’ve lost. My computer is only 1 1/2 yrs. old, otherwise I would replace it. I managed to hook it up to the internet and reinstalled all my old programs, but it isn’t wireless anymore, and I no longer have a sound card and am getting error messages all over the place.

What did I do? I allowed my daughter to install a game on my computer and it didn’t quite install completely. I then found out that she didn’t shut the computer down correctly. When I turned it on, it was prompting me to turn it on in safe mode, yet it wouldn’t boot up, it kept looping.

I still have 2 older computers to work on, but it’s not the same.

UPDATE: I managed to reinstall most of the drivers now and I am wireless once again, have sound, resolution is normal and more. Whew, what a relief! I’m still missing all my documents and picture files, and maybe someday when I’m feeling flush, I’ll pay a pro do a retrieval. It’s amazing how much I rely on my computer day to day. What did I do before I was wired?