Wolf's Den

So I was playing Sims2, building an apartment building.
Game started acting wonky, so I shut it down.

Desktop was wonky. Major wonky. Like started up in Safe Mode wonky.

So I restarted my computer. Or tried to.

It went through the 'Checkdisk' bit, as I ended up having to do a hard restart.

Then it stopped and just... sat there. so I restarted AGAIN. And it did it AGAIN.

Yes, folks, it was at that time I started swearing like the Marine I am.

Fucking computer crashed. Apparently something went wrong in the Windows operating system and the ONLY way to fix it is... yes, you guessed it.. a wipe and reinstall.

No. Just NO. This would have been the FIFTH TIME in TWO YEARS.

I am thoroughly fed up with losing shit. Yes, I've neglected backing up anything OTHER than photos. Those automatically go to the external drive (and gods help me if THAT crashes).

Any Sims2 stuff I've done in the last 3-4 months? Gone.

Any new bookmarks in the last 3-4 months? Gone.

Everything. Gone.

So because I am thoroughly fed up with that piece of shit computer (Dell Dimension DIM C521 Slimline), Mark and I traded computers. He's going to pull the drive, take it to work and see if he can pull anything I want/need off of it before he wipes it.

And now I get to uninstall stuff I'd never use on his computer, reinstall Sims2, Semagic, Kodak photo software, Zune software, ICQ, AIM... and whatever else I can think of.

So tired of this crap.