Matt in a Tux

I haven't updated for a few days, but for good reason. My hard drive decided to crash on me last Saturday night. Basically, I went out, came home, went to sleep, woke up, woke up the computer from the screensaver, and things were freezing. When trying to plug in my dying HDD to a Windows box, explorer would freeze. Ubuntu wouldn't even force mount it.

So now I had to call Dell. Luckily they weren't too bad. I explained that my HDD was failing, and, after about 30 minutes of run around, the tech sent me out a replacement drive.

Now I was worried about lost data. I found a nice liveCD that had solid ntfs support and would force mount to this failing partition. Its a handy, very simple, liveCD called SystemRescueCD. I recommend it for file moving in situations like this.

However, I was not able to find my outlook pst file and firefox profile. For some reason all my AppData couldn't be read. :(

Now I get the fun times of trying to remember my bookmarks and passwords that were stored in firefox. Sigh.

I'm going to cut this one short though on account of being busy trying to get my computer set back up and get some files moved around. But, I think I'll use the words of one of the better cartoon stars out there: