Small miracle on our street

Gosh, any one been wondering where I’ve been?? Probably not… well besides it being Dec and perhaps the craziest time of my life ever… my hard drive crashed!!! Yea, what a pain… back up your photos, people!!!

It’s not a matter of IF it happens to you, it’s WHEN.

I owe it all to my busy little man, Isaac. He knocked over my tower. I wasn’t there, Jer just told me about it. When it fell over it made some crazy noise like this… grchchchcsssss grhchhhh click click click. After that the hard drive would never boot up. I had my super dooper brother come over and try to rescue me. No go. He confirmed the crash.

I started looking into some recovery services and which hard drive we wanted to purchase to replace the broken one. I was in the middle of a Christmas card for my sis in law so I would go over to a friends house to use her computer/photoshop. (Luckily all my scrap stuff was save on my external hard drive.)

We bought a new hard drive and between me and jer (neither of us are very handy with anything– let alone a computer) we tried to install it. Needless to say, we hit a few road bumps. We didn’t have a windows XP cd because it had just come on our computer. It took us a day or two to track one down.

We were finally on the road to repair when Jer was on the phone with my bro (I think I’ve called him everyday for a week, poor guy…) getting some instructions. I guess my bro suggested something about trying another recovery something or other with the old hard drive. Jer plugged it back in and whaa laaa… it worked!!! Crazy. hummm… we hurried and backed up all of our data we wanted to save in case the miracle didn’t last very long.

So far so good… Thank you, thank you. I know it may seem like a little thing, but man!, sometimes you just need a little break every now and then. Ahhh…