My laptop is not booting up properly and after trying everything I could imagine – attempt to boot it under safe mode, attempt to use ERD Commander for recovery, etc., I gave up and it’s now in the London Drugs computer department to have its data extracted. Once the data is extracted I will be restoring the laptop to factory condition and start over again. But this is a major pain in the ass, honestly.

I am currently able to use only my Windows XP machine which sits at my desk and never leaves (despite the fact that it is a laptop, it has a dead screen, so it’s hooked up to an external monitor). This is the machine that I use for programming of John Chow’s TTZ Media Adserver/Catalog project, so at least I will be getting some work done. Hopefully by tomorrow they will have my laptop data restored, and by tomorrow night I will have full access of my regular machine again.