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I decided to replace my main hard drive as a preventative measure. I have had hard drives fail before, usually around 2-3 years. Using Drive Image went to image the drive. Was going to take 18 hours or so. After 30 minutes stopped it. Realized the CD was dropping the bus to its speed. Unplugged it and started over. Left it overnight. Unfortunately, that was the wrong drive. So started the correct drive. Drive Image fails. Turns out I have Norton GoBack on my boot drive but didn't know it at the time. Nothing I am aware of will image this drive but I don't know that yet.

Have DI scan the drive and it finds an error it can fix. Stupidly I say yes. Bye bye partition. Well, except the GoBack partition. Happily go for the GoBack button. Not sure what good GoBack is cause this is one thing it won't GoBack. Great. I've just lost my taxes, Money file, pictures, mail file, blah, blah, blah.

That was a nice day at work.

Installed XP and Norton Anti-Virus on my new drive and then took it to work. I'm dial-up. Work is broadband. Way to many downloads for home. I also have Winternals at work. Let me tell you, bjet recommends. Boot off the Winternals CD and scan for lost partitions. Once found scan for files. Then can "recover" them to my new drive. Big relief. Spent this morning getting everything updated, downloading Nero, Zone-Alarm, etc. Setting up Outlook again and finding all my licenses.

I am well aware I should be backing all this stuff up to my server. Except it died three weeks ago. I am slowly building a new one.

I must say, the week without a computer was pretty quiet. I probably was supposed to read a book or something.

--bjet