Ohhh, I hate it when this happens!!!

I got up this morning, fed the cat, started the computer, and heard a fan or somethng spinning too fast or something and… pulled the plug on the computer and plugged it back in and pushed "start".

The computer stops booting.  A message comes up to the tune of (no, I don’t remember it exactly) such and such a program is corrupt or intalled incorrectly.  Use the Windows disc to fix this.  So, I pull out the three discs that came with the computer (was it THREE years ago I bought this??) and shove the first one in and it says something like "you’ll lose everything on the hard drive if you do this".

Ohhhh shit.

I pulled out the disc and thought about it.

I have a back up hard drive plugged into a USB port… I wonder how far back I up dated it.

Put the disc back in and reformatted the drive – lost everything on it.  Damn.

(got a fairly complete back up)

fairly.

I cannot get the security suite to download – the computer keeps freezing or locking up  – non fucking responsive, in other words. And I still have hours of messing around with the damn thing – programs to reinstall, bookmarks to recreate – shit, all day.

*****