Well, after 2 more/new hard drives, an overnight bout of software data recovery, 15 burnt DVD's of now highly-prized backed-up data and another re-install of my OS....I THINK it's gonna work this time...;o) I've got a working PC and a triple espresso in front of me...I'm ready to come back to work, lol. Diving into the deep end, AgentSmith P.S. - So If you have Challenge entries you don't yet see, it's because I have been cut-off from Renderosity, I'll be catching up on entries/IM's/the Forum/etc, asap.

Hey now, howdy stranger, glad to see you up and running...

hmm...

I'm just glad to have a PC at all again. Was going through withdrawls... AS

not having a pc certainly sucks. i can relate drac

Welcome back. I can definitely empathize after having my main hard drive fail just a few months ago and having to go through the replacements, backups, reinstalls, and computer withdrawl.

Yeah, glad you're plugged back into the Matrix...er, I mean Bryce Forum.

Wow! Robin Hoo...er..Agent Smith's back!

I just get thoughts of you spending days on end in a garage with a computer in the middle up on a jack and bit's and pieces all around and you keep pulling a starting cord and it chugs to life for a few seconds before failing again. Oh! Just had an idea for a render.....

Agent Smith..well, the name sounds familiar, but we hain't seen him in these parts for a bit..;) I had a Wings tutorial to post, mebbe he can look at that (it's in 'pending', as far as I know..;) Or mebbe I should check with bazc..;)

And here I thought you took the March Challenge prize money and split to Hawaii...

Good to see you back AS..... I know how losing a hard drive can be. I lost a 120 gig hard drive about 9 months ago. Was unable to recover anything from it. Hope you did a better job of backing things up than I did. Lol. Wade

Ouch! Sorry to hear that Swade!

Hi AgentSmith, are you a new member? lol 8) Absence makes the heart grow fonder, welcome back captain. 8) Catlin

there's prize money! damned HDs are evil buggers. my first drive blew up managed to recover nearly everything except my super-duper important college course of which there was only one copy in existance... IBM customer service were great and had a replacement drive with me in 14 days. thank god for P100s! i would have failed college without mine ;] John

I did lose a few things, nothing Bryce-related though. Lost some plug-in settings, some pictures, a few mp3's...I guess I can live with that, lol. If the drive I had to data recover from wasn't now my OS hard drive, I would have been able to recover most everything. I use Easy Recover Pro 6, btw. I swear the only thing better is hardware recovery. I've used that program a few times now in repairing the PC's of others, it's great. AS

how much? some of us aint rich! John

Not cheap at all. :o/ You can get the standard program for an individual for around $90. Pro starts at $500. Not for the casual user, lol. It's for when you are thinking of sending out a drive for hardware recovery anyway. AS