Disk Crash at the 3dSkiMaps Chalet!

I downloaded the Kalyway 10.5.2 iso over Limewire, and when it finished loading, it did something bad to my main hard drive. Fortunately I’ve been busy on other things since my last backup in July, so I don’t think I lost much. And I found some recovery software called GetDataBack at http://runtime.org, which seems to have retrieved a lot of items. But I’m going to have to slog through a hundred gigs of junk to find the good stuff. And even then some of it might not still be good.

Ironically, I was downloading Kalyway because I found a cheap Intel Core Duo machine running Vista, and am planning to make it into a Hackintosh so I can develop for the iPhone on that side and for Google Earth plugin on the other. The one that crashed was a Windows 2000 machine that wouldn’t do either of those things.

But like I said, I have almost all my data backed up. I had just finished up Snowmass and was getting ready to load that up to the site. I hope it’s still on there, uncorrupted. Oh yeah, and I had all my new stylings for t-shirts and posters. That’ll be a pain if it’s not there, but the hard part is always coming up with designs. Once you get it down, it’s not that hard to knock it off again.

Meanwhile, I’ll be busy recovering stuff and setting up my new machine for a couple of weeks before I put anything new on the site.

D’oh! I never published this. Now it’s already been about a month since I wrote it.