[The Mayor]

Computers will drive ya crazy and 2 crashes in the middle of a campaign is extremely frustrating.

We were just doing well rebuilding our data, then boom. She blew..

Gotta get to work.. see ya later on.

[snugs]

So many people seem to have computer problems is it due to the age of the machines viruses or what but everyday I seem to hear of someone new getting hit.

I was fortunate none of my data was lost and was all safe in its directories once my hard disk was working again, the boot sector had got corrupted due to the virus I had and therefore missing bits of the operating software were causing it not to switch off properly and eventually after one too many switch offs at the wall it did not want to re-boot.

This was good in a way though it forced me to get a DVD writer (as only half of my data was backed up due to I knew with CDs it was going to take a couple of evenings) - no excuse. Also I bought a new hard disk and am now running my old hard disk as a back up drive which I back my data up to twice a week and I will attempt to back to DVDs at least once a month. I never want to be in the position where I thought I might have to pay a specialist to actually get the data back from what I thought was a dead drive.

Hope you soon re-build your data but I certainly would recommend one buys a second hard disk for backup so as such no re-building of data is required only transferring it to the current hard disk you have. I nearly learned the hard way.