Catastrophic computer problems

May 2010

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Catastrophic computer problems
Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.

As you can see, I've experienced a major problem with my system. I am in the process of formatting my hardrive and reinstalling windows system. I have backups of mostly everything except the last ten days of email -and a few documents that weren't backed up online- got sloppy with backup in the back to school rush and being so busy.

So, if you sent me something and I haven't responded or if you hear from me begging to resend that email -- please do.

I did not need this to happen .... it is a pain and time consuming to reinstall software and operating system. I have a Dell and Gold Tech Support, but I'm finding that I know more than a few of the reps I've spoken too. .

But, I've learned a few lessons about the problems with my current back up system. On the positive side, it is a chance to zero out my over cluttered inbox and hard drive and start fresh.

We are not sure why this happened. It was a corrupted registry and windows system, along with a degraded RAID. (I have a RAID 1). It might have been some of the software that installed and I'm hoping it wasn't my screencasting creation software. However, I suspect it was the beta uploader tool of one of the video sharing services I played with. (I tested like 6 of them this week)

It means that I probably can't attend the podcamp party tonight .. darn. I hope to be at podcamp bright and early tommorrow morning, depending on how much progress I make on the system installation and software installation ....