hard drive gone?

Wooah, yeah a bad cable will do it...

BTW, and while you're on it (and now that it's working), time to think of a data backup. You back it up, not necessarily to another hard drive, but to some other media such as a CD-RW (OK, the data might be too much for this now...it worked for me until about 2001 or there abouts), DVD-RW, a tape backup, or the like...

And come to think of it, when I get some money, I should buy another backup device now that CDs are out. I have all my data on a second drive, but your encounter highlights the risks of not having a recent backup...

Also good to have the data (basically anything you can't replace) in seperate directories from the programs (mine is in e:\users and e:\data, from back when I still had data on my c: drive for dos and win95..., never merged the 2 data directories). Programs by default save the data to their own program directories or the like, bad idea... The programs you can always reinstall, the data you can't. You might want directories in the data directories for your service pack, drivers, and any freeware software (the installer executables) you downloaded that you'd have to spend time hunting down again to recover as well...

Oh, and lest I forget, if you downloaded a firewall program... Best to reinstall that before connecting the comp to the network. Was never an issue for me, but about 1.5 years ago during a somewhat routine format/fresh install I got hit by one of them dumb worms that auto-updates itself to one's comp, the second I got the IP address info added, and before I had even a second to download the stuff from Windows Update...
 

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Also Hi EP and people. I found this place again while looking through a oooollllllldddd backup. I have filled over 10TB and was looking at my collection of antiques. Any bids on the 500Mhz Win 95 fix?
Any of the SP crew still out there?
Xie wrote on Electronic Punk's profile.
Impressed you have kept this alive this long EP! So many sites have come and gone. :(

Just did some crude math and I apparently joined almost 18yrs ago, how is that possible???
hello peeps... is been some time since i last came here.
Electronic Punk wrote on Sazar's profile.
Rest in peace my friend, been trying to find you and finally did in the worst way imaginable.

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