My laptop died. So, the nerd in me did everything to get my data back.

A system driver was what was freaking out, so safe mode didn't work. I tried to ERD it, but since the system was freaking, it didn't even recognize that it was windows... o_O So, then I put the hard drive in a enclosure, but other computers couldn't recognize it. Then after lots of trouble I popped in a Knoppix disk and I could finally get to my information. Since Knoppix can't write to NTFS partitions (read-only), I could only backup my data to another drive (that I had to format to FAT32). I tried a different version of Knoppix that allows the user to write to NTFS partitions, but it needed to recognize system files, and since the system couldn't recognize itself, Knoppix couldn't recognize that there was an NTFS partition there. -_-

Kudos to you who read all of that. ^__^ I did a reload of XP then.

I'm addicted to solitaire and FFXI now... I'm level 7 and all I'm going to do is get to level 20 so I can start raising a chocobo!! If they were real, I would be a chocobo breeder... no doubt about it. ^_^ And the solitaire thing... I played that while loading all the crap back.

Ok, I'm off to fix up pictures to submit.

April