Back in the mid 80's, I had written a novel for my Creative Writing class and of course being a stuped teen, didn't back the sucker up and the hard drive blew. I still remember that it was 374 pages. :damn:
I also lost a good 150+ pages of poetry and song lyrics.:damn: :damn:

I ended up having to rewrite the whole novel from scratch again (Lucky I had a binder with the bible for the story at the time). I don't know whatever happened to that book. I submitted it and then let it drop into obscurity on floppy disks. The floppies HAVE to be gone by now. I STILL do have the bible for the book. I should rewrite it.

Lesson learned. Back it up.. back it up often... and back it up onto multiple types of media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy00KL_4ZKk

There ya go, SubNuts.

Word 2003 and 2007 have an auto-backup feature that you can set to save your work every X mins. Then, if anything bad ever happens, you can go to the auto-recovery thingie and load the last back-up.

In Word 2003 go to Tools, Options, Save and check the relevant boxes.

I rarely use Word 2007 so I don't know where to go in that one.

Assuming your HDD crapping out isn't what locked you up in the first place...

You have my sympathies.

How did the re-write come out?