The joys of technology

Dear me...

What drama's! Remember I said my harddrive crashed?
Well... it sort of got back to working again after it moved its bootsector and I have been trying to get information of my old drive since the first sound of marbles jumping up and down in my harddrive...

Used Norton Ghost, created an entire backup image of my C: drive because I was told after that I could browse the backup and only put back the files I really wanted. Well.. when I finally received my lappie back with the new harddrive and the BACs standard image I first tried to browse the image I had put on an external drive (13gb image...) to pick out a few of the most important files and directories.... 'browsing this file is not supported'. Oh blow...

After trying a few more times I thought that it was probably because I did an image of my entire hard drive and had the brilliant idea to just put the entire harddrive back on my new one... Well... that resulted in a 'disk read error' and nothing else. Nothing I could do.

So.. lappie back to the BAC kitchen again for another refresh with the BAC image.

So yesterday finally I got it back and manually installed again all the programs I need to use to do my job.

And today.. normality returns... I am of course still searching all over the place for passwords and login names and I find it remarkable how many things you don't realise you use!

I have now installed the BAC's own backup tool and today after using most of my favorite programs and sites and therefore installing all cookies and passwords and things I will try and backup it in total. I must say.. it is nice to have such a fresh start, it is like having a spring clean but I am sure that over time I will realise all the things I didn't know were important until they died in the HD crash...

But.. all that is totally unimportant!

My mum had to go to a skin doctor because she had an awkward bit of skin on her cheek which her GP didn't trust, yesterday she got the result! It is 'just' sun damage and will be 'frozen' away on the 16th of June, not very nice but we are all over the moon that it is not skin cancer of the bad kind, hooray!

Who cares about lost data anyway!