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[Johanna]

Oh, Art....I'm soooo sorry. You're gonna have 6999 problems. Which flavor of Vista? Have you considered early retirement? Tennessee whiskey? I can't imagine 7000 people complaining at the same time. Oh wait, I work here. I have had those days! At least they pass relatively quickly. Yours is going to be a prolonged agony no matter how well you plan the execution. Execution. There's an idea for the person who thought up replacing 7000 computers that work with MS Vista.

The word on the tech boards is that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. If that drive wouldn't have failed, I would have happily waited for Windows 7. I upgraded my mom and her husband to Vista. It's a lot like the thumb hammering, but at least I can drive over there in 5 minutes and fix it myself. Trying to talk my mother through computer procedures on the phone is more frustrating for me than her.

Johanna

[Art]

Vista Business. When they complain, that's a different department.

Art

Oh, Art....I'm soooo sorry. You're gonna have 6999 problems. Which flavor of Vista? Have you considered early retirement? Tennessee whiskey? I can't imagine 7000 people complaining at the same time. Oh wait, I work here. I have had those days! At least they pass relatively quickly. Yours is going to be a prolonged agony no matter how well you plan the execution. Execution. There's an idea for the person who thought up replacing 7000 computers that work with MS Vista.

The word on the tech boards is that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. If that drive wouldn't have failed, I would have happily waited for Windows 7. I upgraded my mom and her husband to Vista. It's a lot like the thumb hammering, but at least I can drive over there in 5 minutes and fix it myself. Trying to talk my mother through computer procedures on the phone is more frustrating for me than her.

Johanna

[TwinOaks]

You know what's funny Twin?, I have professional forensic applications on the drive that crashed...sheesh

The Geeks said they could still retrieve the remaining data...but only by basically cutting out the damaged sections and rebuilding a reader for it...I'm sute you know more about it than I do as you have an IT background. My cost would have been over a grand. I guess my wife thought the pics were worth it, but I had to douse that thought with some cold hard reality. For the more drastic measures of data recovery, it'd be worth it if I had a couple of thousand dollars worth of invoices on it, but for 60 something pics, I had to wish it well.