Lost Everything (almost)

After countless hours on the phone with Microsoft, taking my computer and external hard drive (with vista backup files) to two different computer guru's, I am finally accepting the fact that I have lost all of my big files.

Not only were those files big in my mind since they held my contacts, e-mails, financials and web page, they were big in size as well...

The computer guys were able to recover some of my pictues and files. Thank you!

Guess, if I have to find something positive... my computer is much faster without all of the files and other accomulated junk. :)



After all of the research, I have learned two very major things (1) Vista backup sucks and (2) The compression software which comes with Vista has many problems. I downloaded 7-zip (free) which decompressed files Vista could not.

Ugh Computers- lost everything!

This fall has been gorgeous so much so, I decided to do some computer work out on the patio with my faithful companions, Beau and Tanner. Beau ,an 11 1/2 year old classic golden loves to hang in the shade while chewing on pine cones and watching the wildlife. Tanner, on the other hand, loves movement, he is a very active golden retriever possessed by tennis balls, bike riders, squirrels and anything else which moves.

To get to the point - Tanner got caught up in the power cord of my laptop creating a whiplash effect crashing the computer on to the patio. The hard drive was fatally damaged.

Back up, back up, back up... I had backed up just 4 days prior to "the incident". Unfortunately, I just get error messages attempting to restore it.

I don't have the answer to what went wrong, what the best way to back up is or how to check to be sure data is saved and retrievable. I'm looking into it and will let you know what I find. Or let me know if you have any suggestions!

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