Steppin' It Up A Notch

Jesus is the man!! One week ago, I experienced my 3rd hard drive failure in 4 years. I am thankful to Jesus for keeping the hard drive going for the last week; I've been able to recover about 80% of my stuff. The first time I had a hard drive failure, it was so bad that the computer would constantly lose contact with the hard drive. I think this failure I just experienced was worse but it has miraculously been going for an entire week and only disappeared off the grid twice. You know it's bad when the drive makes clicking noises and beeps when you're trying to access the files. I had issues with ownership of the files: Windows wouldn't let me access the files with the drive plugged into a different computer because it detected that the files belonged to the user on that dying drive. I was able to get around it by taking ownership one folder at a time and copying files out with the only useful thing that Microsoft has ever made: DOS. With what I've recovered, I've been able to get back to pretty much where I was one week ago. The biggest thing I was working on was the DVD of my mission trip to Rwanda. Although I was unable to recover the movie files I had created, I was able to remake them and I think my DVD is going to be even better now than before. Lesson learned: don't be lazy and think you can back stuff up later when you've gotten rid of stuff you don't want. Not having a computer to work with at home could very well be a blessing in disguise. I can now spend more time practicing my guitar playing and reading the bible.... now if only I didn't have a TV.

Posted by Phil at 5:10 PM