Post by Colin McCubbin on Dec 7, 2005 22:52:45 GMT
Hi folks,
After a major computer upset here, which involved a problem that destroyed my main pc AND my backup portable, I have lost all my email addresses. (Also thousands of pics of nationals.
)
I now have a new pc and am rebuilding my address book so if you have been in email contact with me before, please email me at my usual address and I can add you to my address book. If you can send a vCard I can automatically populate my address book with your snail mail address and phone nos too!
To make you laugh (or cry) the story went like this.. My back up box only had a small HD so a month or so I coped all the backed up suff to my main pc and bought/fitted a new super big HD to the backup. The brand new drive was riddled with bad sectors,and while I was waiting for a new, new HD, my main box announced that windows had failed to start. I tried safe mode and rolling back to a month ago, but no joy. So it went in to the local repair shop where it was new last Easter.
They tell me that the motherboard, memory and HD are all fried, probably by a power supply failure(!) and that left me with my portable with some email and a few odds and sods on it,
On Friday night we had friends over with their kids, so we moved the coffee table by the sofa for the kids to play. Later that night after peace had returned and a 'certain' amount of red wine had been drunk I sat on the sofa, did my email, got up, tripped over the coffee table which wasn't in it's usual place and slung my portable onto the hardwood floor. Hardwood floor 1 Portable nill!
So from having 3 machines 5 weeks ago I then had none!
Obviously all the pics at notecannons.com are still there & I have grabbed them all, but I am having to hope that a data recovery company can mount the 'platters' from the dead HD into a new drive unit and so I can get all the other pics (Michael calls it my guitar porn) back.
Aloha!
Thanks,
Colin
After a major computer upset here, which involved a problem that destroyed my main pc AND my backup portable, I have lost all my email addresses. (Also thousands of pics of nationals.
)I now have a new pc and am rebuilding my address book so if you have been in email contact with me before, please email me at my usual address and I can add you to my address book. If you can send a vCard I can automatically populate my address book with your snail mail address and phone nos too!
To make you laugh (or cry) the story went like this.. My back up box only had a small HD so a month or so I coped all the backed up suff to my main pc and bought/fitted a new super big HD to the backup. The brand new drive was riddled with bad sectors,and while I was waiting for a new, new HD, my main box announced that windows had failed to start. I tried safe mode and rolling back to a month ago, but no joy. So it went in to the local repair shop where it was new last Easter.
They tell me that the motherboard, memory and HD are all fried, probably by a power supply failure(!) and that left me with my portable with some email and a few odds and sods on it,
On Friday night we had friends over with their kids, so we moved the coffee table by the sofa for the kids to play. Later that night after peace had returned and a 'certain' amount of red wine had been drunk I sat on the sofa, did my email, got up, tripped over the coffee table which wasn't in it's usual place and slung my portable onto the hardwood floor. Hardwood floor 1 Portable nill!
So from having 3 machines 5 weeks ago I then had none!
Obviously all the pics at notecannons.com are still there & I have grabbed them all, but I am having to hope that a data recovery company can mount the 'platters' from the dead HD into a new drive unit and so I can get all the other pics (Michael calls it my guitar porn) back.
Aloha!
Thanks,
Colin
