Seriously...everyone backs their files up on a regular basis...right?
I almost screwed the pooch a couple of days ago by coming dangerously close to losing almost 300 or so images when my hard drive hit a brick wall. The driver (my master boot record or MBR) was killed instantly! Right in the middle of making updates to my journal.
I did the usual restart and got the blue screen of death along with various other errors and XP refused to start.



After searching some two thousand-odd web pages and alot of trial and error, I finally got the MBR to acknowledge that the file system was indeed an NTFS file system. Then the search for something to actually read the drive began. And I must say, it ended with a glorious ray of sunshine! Using a freeware, DOS-based program called TestDisk 6.9. This little jewel saved my ass in ways I can't describe! It reads virtually every file system known to man and works on a number of platforms. I recommend you check it out!

So, little life lesson learned--keep your files backed up! My new PC will be ordered next week and I'm going to convert this one to a network raid server.

I think this here journal thingy is getting close to where I want it. We'll just see how it goes from here...that's the beauty of evolution!

Can someone give me a pointer on how to control the font size within these boxes--it would be greatly appreciated!

There are some decent backgrounds here if you're interested.

My fav's of the week!