Posted by: Tom



Has this ever happened to you?

It's been a while since I've posted. Mostly because we had some computer woes just as Ang was preparing her lesson plans for the little guys in the fall. Our computer blew up ... actually ... it didn't quite blow up because all the data etc. was still on the hard drive - we didn't lose anything. However, the monitor, keyboard, mouse and both drives were all inaccessible.

As is most often the case, this happened just when Ang needed the computer most for planning her class in the fall. So fixing it (I suspect it was the motherboard) was pretty much out of the question as we didn't have time. So we had to do some scrambling. Bought a new tower.

Of course, once I'd purchased the system and got everything set up, I realized there was no IDE connection in the new system. As a result, we couldn't connect the old hard drive to recover Ang's data. The only way to recover this was to get a 3.5 Inch USB External Hard Drive Enclosure ... which NOBODY in all of TORONTO seemed to have in stock. Luckily, my good friend Noel (see:WinRepair) had one and loaned it to me so we had Ang back up and running.

Oh what fun. Anyway, back in business now and I wanted to post not just to tell you about these woes, but to also link to a great Blog. Please visit: Death in the Knife