Bad News & Good News
Hi Folks,
For what it is worth, I figured I'd post an update here on what is going on in my life as it were - as it impacts on 8 players (or is that 9?)
What happened recently was that my wife decided to go looking for pictures of a particular actor from Law & Orders Special Victim's unit. The fact he had been on the HBO series OZ might have had something to do with it. In any event, she went to a celebrity pictures website (naughty naughty) and got hit with a virus on MY computer (grumble grumble grumble!). Suffice to say, trying to remove a virus was not fun. To make matters worse, during mid-restore to a previous "snapshot" of the Operating system of Windows, the computer died in mid-operation. BAAAAD news. It killed everything on the computer because the computer would no longer boot. A computer owner's worst nightmare as the saying goes. What made it worse was the fact that I placed my email reader inside "My documents" so that snoopy people would not inadvertantly nose about my emails. This should have made it impossible to recover my files (or so my computer tech told me when I took my system in for repairs). He was able to restore some of the data and get the PC working, but anything in my folders under "documents and settings" was impossible to get into - as windows will not let you in unless you sign in as the owner of that section. This I could not do once my OS went belly up.
The GOOD news is however, that I came across some commercial software that lets me recover data from damaged hard drives (ie damaged in that the system can't get into it, but that the mechanics of the hard drive still work). It worked for my windows98 formatted hard drive last year, and a newer version of the program worked with the hard drive on XP Home. If ANYONE tells you that once you place a file in "My Documents" in your logon section under "Documents and Settings", no one can see those files - do NOT believe them. (I'm lucky that this is NOT true!)
In any event, I now have to recover my files (I've at least got my email files back now!) and then re-install a lot of my previous programs back onto the computer. This will take time and hopefully, my database files were not corrupted. Unfortunately, I have to re-install my office programs including access and excel
So, that's the gist of it. If you've been wondering why there's no updates or what have you other than what is on my web page at
http://users.adelphia.net/~alaconius under 5FW. As it turns out, my webpage authoring program was also in my "my documents" section of the hard drive.
Patience
