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I will be off line and un-available for maybe a week. I have all the signs of a impending HDD failure and all the fun that comes with that. Been through this before and now I get to discover all the programs I've come to rely on that I just take for granted

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Good lord....
Nothing beats the fun from an HDD failure.

I mean, with GPU, Processor, or Memory damage you can just buy and plug-in the new ones. But no money on earth can replace a lost data. There are some data-recovery services though, but they're talking about low-percentage success, depending on how the HDD is damaged. The price for such services is monumental though.

All the best of luck for you Don...

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We'll, The computers back, I've re-established my internet connection but only barely scratched the surface of what needs to be re-installed.............now the fun really begins.... All the little settings you set up and take for granted need to be found and re-set up. I have no hair so at least I won't be ripping it out

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I have felt this pain myself, having to trudge for weeks just to have every single program works correctly as before. Man....it's really mighty tedious especially with the OCD thing that I have.

Next time Don (although I haven't done this myself) you need to create an "image" of your hard-disk, so that anytime you need to reinstall Windows or formatting/replacing hard-disk, all you need to do to restore everything to status quo was simply "applying the image" back to the new hard-disk, it's very very quick and Windows has a built-in feature to do this task. Although of course, you need to have quite a lot of space (preferably in another separate HDD) to store the "image" in, since it's copying virtually everything from the old HDD, nook-cranny and free-space and all.

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I now own a 2 TB WD passport that automates back-ups.

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Well now that's neat!

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Yeah I don't think I'll fill it up anytime soon