Lost my secondary hard drive this morning. Bltzfghbppppp ..... Family finance data ... Family pictures ... All business correspondence, forms, etc. ... ... gone. Just little blips in data heaven. Thanks for the bug in an otherwise pretty darned good system (XP), Bill! My message: Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! Back it up! B A C K I T U P ! ... 'till the cows come home. Other than that, life's a peach. Alan Barnard Salem, MO Gory details: Internet Explorer got all screwed up, wouldn't work right. Tried to reinstall latest version--Microsoft product downloaded from Microsoft site into Microsoft operating system. Got a Microsoft message box: Product doesn't pass our digital signature logo something-or-other and WILL NOT BE INSTALLED. (!) Backed up everything from C: drive (primary, has operating system) onto drive E: (the soon-to-be-obliterated drive). Ran System Recovery that is supposed to set up the C: drive exactly as it was the day I took it out of the big box. Didn't change ANYTHING on the C: drive. All the stuff's still there, all the programs on it run, and Internet Explorer is still hosed. But it did wipe out the E: drive --- Very perverse: Some folders remained, some were gone and almost all folders were empty, wiped slick. Ran data recovery software and disk maintenance software ... nada.
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