Disaster

I was spending my whole night trying to off load some of the files from a laptop before returning it. So I transfered everything important to my new 500G portable hard drive. One of the last files I had to transfer over was a 4.02 G Knoppix DVD version. Unknowingly, my hard drive was using FAT32, which of course could not cope with file larger than 4G. What I did not know - which I should have, because this was not the first time it happened, the first time it wrecked my USB thumb drive - was that in attempting to transfer the file, I corrupted my hard drive FAT, so the whole hard drive crashed!

I could almost cry.

Well, to pick up the pieces, I have to reformat the hard drive - and of course this time I will reformat it to the NTFS, so that it can cope with large file in the future.

But what about all the files that I lost? I tried using PC Inspector to recover the files, but the stupid Window Vista refuses to let me install the programme, because I don't have administrator's right! What a stupid system! What does it mean that I don't have the right!

My temper flared, and I was on the verge of getting my hammer out to smash the laptop had it not been the fact that my kids were around, and that would not be such a good example.

Well, finally, at 2 am, I found this programme - undelete from:

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/



This small, simple, programme allows me to undelete all the files I deleted while transferring them to my doomed hard drive.

Next time, if you accidentally delete any important file, remember this nifty little programme.

PRAISE GOD!

The only thing left to do is to reformat my hard drive. And you can count how long it will take, all 500G. I think it will be a long, long night for me tonight, and I won't be sleeping ...