My Computer Crashed and...

[Jerry]

Recuva is a great app. I have had awesome success with recovering data with it.

Also I'm going to add the "me too" about my computer crashing. It seems my 500GB has finally decided to pack up and it ended up looking like an additional hardware failure too. It ended up being the drive (which has been acting funny for years), and what I suspect a loose connection. Funny enough, I had just bought 10 drives for the servers and was in the process of migrating the raid arrays from 72GB to 146GB. I ended up having to buy a new drive for my machine as well. 1TB for $74 vs 500GB for $69.

[Algenon5]

Condolences, Jerry, though I'm sure all your critical files were backed up
on external drives (which is something EVERYONE should do).

I guess I'm still leading a charmed life. I've never had an H-drive failure.
This includes the thirteen-year-old IDE salvaged from my first PC, which
gets almost-daily use. If and when it finally heads for cyber heaven, it
will almost seem like loosing an old friend.

Al