Hrmph

So, this afternoon I turned my computer on and it said "I can't read a bit of your profile", and helpfully deleted the rest for me. Of course, my e-mails were stored in my profile. Grr. So I have lost quite a few important e-mails which I hadn't replied to yet, so if you sent me something recently and I haven't replied by the time you read this, try sending it again!

I don't know what is more annoying - the fact that I have a machine sitting waiting for me to find the time to set it up as a mailserver, or that I looked at my outhouse express dbxs earlier today and thought "Hmm, should I back these up? Nahh". Or that I have spent about 14 hours trying various different file recovery programs, all of which can only seem to find the small files - the big ones, such as Inbox, tonbschl and uni, don't get recovered. I found one program that does a more probing scan of the hard drive, but of course my drive has errors and it crashes on 26%. Typical. Eventually you have to give up though, and I think I've given it a good go. Tis only e-mail, after all. Most of the other things (bookmarks etc) I have retrieved without problem.

So in a couple of days I start towards buying a replacement desktop. I nearly bought a new one in December after this refused to boot up for a day, but I can't take this any more, especially with the dissertation hand in only 29 days and 5 hours away. I think I'll just go with a new hard drive for now - rip out the raid drives (this onboard highpoint controller is more trouble than its worth), and bung in a plain IDE.

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