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Hard Disk coughs, splutters and dies
Mister Matty Started conversation Apr 29, 2003
On Sunday the 27th of April in the Year of Our Lord 2003 the Hard Disk on this PC went all mental and gave up.
It was five years old.
Luckily, I managed to re-format the varmint and re-install Windows 95 (an aborted attempt to install Windows 2000 is what killed the poor thing).
All Zagreb's work (including some screenplay work), writing and his vast ZX Spectrum games collection were lost. 
Luckily, he spat on his hands and re-installed the Graphics Card drivers (thus getting rid of the foul VGA display) and the Internet.
So, yeah, after being offline for a few days (and boy did it suck to be "denied") I am back online. This is a Good Thing.
Hard Disk coughs, splutters and dies
IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system Posted Apr 29, 2003
*makes mental note to back everything interesting up - SOON*
poor you, losing stuff - but then, c'est la vie, excrement occurs, etc...
Here, have an edible loobrush to celebrate your return to the connected world... 
Hard Disk coughs, splutters and dies
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Apr 30, 2003
Ahh, practical lessons in the importance of back up tapes. *grinning smugly, secure in the knowledge that the entire harddrive of this PC is on a couple of zip tapes*
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