GWX 3 Bummer
 

I was so happy to see GWX 3 released that I deleted all
my other SHIII GWX files to do a fresh install Of SHIII. In
the process my machine crashed and I had to reload Windows
XP on to my Alienware machine. More bad luck my install
disk war corrupt and would not load. 5 hours on the phone
with Alienware and we could not fix. They are sending me
a new XP recovery disk but it wont be here for 7 days. I have
to use my wife's machine just to check the forum. Her machine
is not suitable for GWX graphics.

I hope that this never happens to any of you. I am depressed
and my liquor supply is disapearing down my gullet due to deep
depression.

Someone please give me some feed back on GWX 3 to keep
me going for the next 7 days...

Sorry to hear about your disaster. I'll send Bernard to keep you posted. meanwhile . . . :()1:

Man, sorry to hear that. About a year ago I have lost 7 years of my data (all my digital camera pictures, most of my graphic design work, etc.) because of almost brand new faulty Western Digital drive. Did you backup your important data before it happened?
Believe me, I know how you feel...

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. I'm sure you have already heard it but, backup important data. Cd's are cheap.

Hope you get up and running soon.

I would buy an external storage drive for your backups - USB - select what you need to back up. Storage capacity is 4x my computer hard drive and they are cheap. I have 3. I just buy a new one each year and store by year. Sorry - been there and suffered that myself. I just ordered a Western Digital Element 1TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive for 100 USD. See a huge selection w/ specs:

http://www.newegg.com/store/SubCateg...ubCategory=414

Either that or get a RAID card and extra drive and backup your data in real-time. That's what I've done after my crash. They are fairly cheap too.

Thanks for all your suggestions.
Fortunatly I have a storage drive with all
my SHA site stuff so I didn't lose any of
that. My 8 years of family pics were also
there so I guess I am prety lucky.


A raid devise? was mentioned. What is that?

In a nutshell:
RAID is a card (kinda like a graphic card) you install in an empty slot in your PC. Then you hook up two identical disks to it and start saving your data in one of the drives. If you have the RAID array set to "mirror" (RAID1) all the data on your drive will be mirrored to both of them in a real-time. If your drive goes bad you will always have another (identical) drive with your data left intact.
If you have any questions, PM me and I'll do my best to answer them.

I hope that everything goes fine and you can keep your flags up:up:

CONUS00

THANKS...As soon as I get my XP disk from Alienware I
will PM you for more info. Again, Thanks/

No problem, mate. Anytime! :up:

Your motherboard may already support Raid
In which case no need for a card just an extra disk

Usually back my stuff up on an ext drive but looking into setting up a raid array

Have a look thru this may help

http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID.htm

Sorry to hear about your woes