Richard,
I'm glad you were able to save everything, Even though it sounds like it was
a bit of a headache. I understand your frustration, my hard drive gave out a
few months ago. Fortunately, about a week prior, I had backed up all my
photos and other important files for the first time ever. I guess I just got
lucky the drive didn't crash sooner. Although, I still lost a lot of files,
including hundreds of music files, which would cost me a fortune to replace.
Put at least I've still got my photos.
Darin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lovison" <rlovison@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:11 AM
Subject: [OM] why sometimes I wish I was shooting film
> Last night I had quite a scare. I opened an email that looked a bit
> suspicious and after doing so, I noticed for the first time that
> something about the computer system wasn't quite right. I attempted to
> open an astronomy program (Dance) to check out how close Mars would be
> at the end of August. The program wouldn't run and complained about the
> working directory being incorrect though it was. This was a program
> that always worked in the past. I had recently replaced drive D (where
> Dance was installed) with a new drive and copied all the filed from the
> old drive to the new one and thought this probably was the cause of the
> problem (even though all the other programs on drive D worked). So I
> decided to delete Dance and reinstall it. When I attempted to do so, I
> got a "corrupted recycle bin on dive D" error. I was starting to panic.
> I then logged in as Administrator (this is WinXP Pro) and discovered
> when I opened the trash bin, there was nothing in it though I had the
> option to empty trash. When I clicked on the option to empty trash I
> got "Do you really want to delete Windows?". At that point I was
> thinking major virus though F-Prot showed nothing. All I could think
> about was the possibility of losing everything, including all my digital
> files and their backups.
>
> I finally did some searches on Google and discovered others had exactly
> the same problem. I'm guessing copying drive D to a new drive was the
> root cause of my problems. I tried all the fixes recommended but the
> only one that worked was deleting my user profile and then recreating a
> new one. What a pain. I discovered the problem at 10pm and finally
> went to bed at 1:30AM after getting my system back to normal.
> Technology... it put a few more gray hairs on my head last night.
>
> Richard
>
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