Saturday, November 1, 2008

Wow Where'd You Go Dragon?

So yeah I've been away from my story writing for awhile now and recently something happened that almost made me think I'd have to stop writing forever. In the middle of a web cam chat with my girlfriend my entire computer just locked up. Usally about 30 minutes worth of fustrating work can make the thing work again, but this time the drive had finally gone and destroyed itself. I don't know why exactly but the main hard drive was no longer in this world. That and along with all my precious MP3, Documents, Pictures, and Movies.

About a month or two before this all happened I had decided to buy a new anti-virus program since my subscription had run out. I looked at a bunch of products and was trying to decide on buying the regular Norton Antivirus program for around $30 or splurge and spend closer to $70 on the Norton 360 suite. I don't know why but I went with the 360 suite and its what saved my life. Now I don't usally go bragging about other peoples products or anything but this little program is worth every dollar I spent on it and more. Why? Let me tell you.

After getting the other two hard drives working on my PC I had to install everything and start from scratch again. The main hard drive was still dead so I went from 3 drives to 2. On one I noticed a folder marked Norton 360 Backup. I quickly downloaded and reinstalled Norton 360 and to my amazement the program had automatically backed up all my pictures, documents, movies, and music and saved them onto another drive. A five minute process later and all my documents are restored huraa! If it wasn't for this program I would have lost all those precious files I worked so hard on!

I will be trying to get some writing it but It will most likely be Christmas break before anything is updated. Really sorry bout that, but I'm afraid life's just to busy at the moment. At least I kept you all posted right?

For those of you looking for me in the game World of Warcraft i'm on the Dunemaul Server Horde under the name Sigmandis.

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