Off On A Tangent

Non-System Disk Error.
"This can't be good." I said to myself.

Well, it wasn't good.

Everything that I'd put on my computer over the last 3 years was now gone.

Good thing I had backed up all the important stuff:

1. Outlook Address Book
2. Quicken Data Files
3. My book: Adventures in Radio: The Creepy Steve Story (250 pages!)

Important Note: Backup anything you don't want to lose.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be to reload everything onto my computer.

Here's what I had to reinstall:

Windows
Network Card Software
IE 5.5
Outlook and Adress book
HP Printer Driver
AIM
Scanner Driver
Flash and Shockwave
Windows Updates
Iomega Zip Drive
DVD Volume Control

Let's just call it a Spring Cleaning.

My system seems a lot faster now too. The drive isn't as sluggish as it used to be.

I wonder if all those recent crashes were an indication of a serious problem.

Hmm.