I guess most of you may already know about this is you read my regular blog.. not that i have been in the mood to do very much lately.

2 weeks ago, my husband came home and told me he had met someone and was leaving. Very plain and simple.. 30 minutes later his car was packed and he left. While I thought he was out working, he was simply screwing around with a workmate.

If you want to read about it.. I won't retell how it all came down here but you can visit my blog at www.eury.blogspot.com and it's all there.

It's been a rough couple of weeks.

As if I didn't have enough crud falling on my head.. this Tuesday, my motherboard let out a puff of magic smoke and died taking with it the processor and ram. Seems a faulty power supply was to blame.. so that had to be replaced also.

The parts arrived Thursday. Of course after taking apart and rebuilding all the parts, XP didn't quite like that I had changed so many components..but said.. do you want to repair.. and I .. (as a fool) said.. yes. thinking I would save time and not lose anything.

Well, first time around, it gave me inaccurate informtion about my drives. My C drive was showing up as 7 gigs instead of 13 and my D drive also showing up as 7 gigs instead of 80. Clicking on the folders gave me weird properties like Program files: 155gigs.. which of course was impossible.

formatted the C drive.. and installed windows xp freshly and now it was showing the C correctly but still ot showing the D as it should be.. Trying to actually look into the files made the computer crash.

So.. trying again..I went into safe mode.. checked and it said the info was only 7gigs.. on the bottom it said.. hardware 74.5gigs.. healthy.

I called someone I know tht has data recovery software.. tried again. Now the drive is 75gig about 43gigs full of photos and photoshop .psd files.. my computer illustrations.. there were also several programs.. but programs can be reinstalled.. my images and photographs cannot. The data was all coming back as gibberish.. I downloaded graphic cards drivers.. this cleared up that problem but now my folders were empty. The data recovery was only able to retreive 937mgs of stuff.. A folder of pictures of my neighbor's children. (that I had already burned to cd) and some xmas songs by transiberiain orchestra.

I finally gave up and quick formatted the drive and starting installing mIRC and Firefox .. a few programs.. to have someone tell me that they had better data recovery software.. but the cardinal rule is to not save anything to that drive.. because then you can just forget about it. So.. I screwed up again.

Now I have lost it all.. you would think that would be enough. well, apparently not. While on the net .. my computer simply shut down.. gave me the blue screen of death, said it had done a memory dump to protect my computer. So I went to get a memory diagnostics tool and ran it through my comp 2 passes and it came up clean.

in my device manager.. my computer was not recognizing the USB 2.0 ports. Installed SP1 from Windows.. no go.

So today, I simpley reformatted everything again.. starting from zero.. like the rest of my life.. and did a fresh install of windows xp and now am crossing my fingers that nothing else happens.

Although the images that were on the old artalyst are compressed and not of high enough quality to print.. at least when they are moved here I will have a copy of some of my favorite images. I had a few new ones.. that I was holding for the new site.. but that are now deceased.

I have learned a valuable lesson.. I mustn't procrastinate.. I would just say.. oh.yeah.. I should back up and then say.. well.. tomorrow. Well, tomorrow is here and all of yesterday is gone.

If you see someone walking around with a voodoo doll that looks like me, with a lock of my hair.. please make them take out the pin they have stuck in my backside.

By eurydice at 2005/06/25 - 9:53pm | eurydice's blog | add new comment | write to author | quote | 19 reads | subscribe blog | unsubscribe post
ugh, I don't even know what to say but.. you have only my best wishes for you and my hope that this WILL get better. hopefully this will all soon be, only, a bad memory.