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Today Windows 98 killed my computer. For years I've been happily bumbling along with XP Home, legit, but missing one critical file: a font I once had back when I used Windows 98. Pan Roman is where the 69 in my sig comes from. I don't know exactly where it came from but I had it when I was a student using dodgy graphics software and it was the perfect match for what I wanted at the time. I made an Adobe Illustrator layout, the black 69 in a white circle, converted it to a Photoshop psd and history was made. Or so I thought.
Several years later and I find myself sitting here in my pants needing the original Illustrator file. I managed to find it on an ancient CD but when I tried to open it I found my critical font was missing. Damn, it must have been on the older version of Illustrator which is long, long gone.
Adobe are kind enough to keep back copies of trial versions so I tried downloading them all but no luck, so I assumed it was part of my rocking Windows 98SE I had as a student. No probs then, I did IT for a bit, I'll just install 98 on the spare partition...
No joy, it's a partitioning thing with XP on the primary partition running on NTFS so I killed the session and went to boot back to XP. NTLDR cannot be found. Oooo that's not good. But that's no problem for me, I've got my system hacked to hell on two partitions so Windows links to my files, emails, desktop etc on the second partition and the system partition is ghosted for quick recovery. Anything can happen to Windows and my files are safe and intact.
Or so I thought. Today it decided to corrupt the ghost image and after a bit of messing about and formatting trying to get it to work I now have to reinstall everything and I mean everything, so that's my smug grin thoroughly wiped off. I think I'm most annoyed that I've lost my internet bookmarks as these were the only bit I didn't have backed up.
What are your computer disasters then?
Several years later and I find myself sitting here in my pants needing the original Illustrator file. I managed to find it on an ancient CD but when I tried to open it I found my critical font was missing. Damn, it must have been on the older version of Illustrator which is long, long gone.
Adobe are kind enough to keep back copies of trial versions so I tried downloading them all but no luck, so I assumed it was part of my rocking Windows 98SE I had as a student. No probs then, I did IT for a bit, I'll just install 98 on the spare partition...
No joy, it's a partitioning thing with XP on the primary partition running on NTFS so I killed the session and went to boot back to XP. NTLDR cannot be found. Oooo that's not good. But that's no problem for me, I've got my system hacked to hell on two partitions so Windows links to my files, emails, desktop etc on the second partition and the system partition is ghosted for quick recovery. Anything can happen to Windows and my files are safe and intact.
Or so I thought. Today it decided to corrupt the ghost image and after a bit of messing about and formatting trying to get it to work I now have to reinstall everything and I mean everything, so that's my smug grin thoroughly wiped off. I think I'm most annoyed that I've lost my internet bookmarks as these were the only bit I didn't have backed up.
What are your computer disasters then?
It was Acronis. Fore-warned is fore-skinned, I mean armed, I think the saying goes.