joetheblow it's not as bad as it might seem. Blowing out your box,or having a catastrophous crash is the way it goes, and the name of the game. It happens to everyone at least once. In my book it is almost cathartic. I have lost 50 to 75 GB of stuff in the blink of an eye, ya just shrug it off, cause when its' gone it's gone. I maen you can use an Undeleter Proggie, and sometimes it comes back. But the neat part about blowing it out or getting slammed with a unexpected data loss, is that each time you come back to the top, you redefine your stratagy and learn newer ways to organize your data, and structure your system so that it becomes more manageable and coherent. I mean at first ya let programs install, where they want to go... Then you start defining where you want them to go... Then you start catagorizing your Start Menu to make sense, and then you move the Temp File location and other files... Then you ask yourself "what is prefetch, and how do I turn it off!" Then you hit on the perfect combination of Core applications that just seem to cover ever aspect of what you do on a Puter. (Hint some folks never..never get out of the applications junkiehood) You come to recognize what makes a toxic install environment for a sytem. When you catch yourself recognizing program Turds and other things that are out of the Ordianry, or can spot a Service or running process, that is not normal and doesn't belong, or ya google something and then Hotbot it, and then Dogpile it, and then lycos it, and then MS Knowledgebase it, you come to discover that "There is no Spoon!"
