Busted!

What an ordeal!

It all started with my Christmas shopping. While at Costco I spotted a Western Digital 500 GB MyBook for $139.99.

They were flying off the shelf! And I tried to think back to the last time I did a back up on my 80GB hard drive. Lots of stuff at risk there...couldn't remember the last time and I decided time to get with it.

So off I go to the check stand. I get home and load the bugger up. Start to do my back up and discover larger than 4GB files require you to reformat to NTFS. So after wasting time on that first backup I format it as NTFS and start over.

So now I finally have a nice backup saved on my new MyBook. So why didn't I stop there?

But no. I decide a little house keeping could only make things better. I head over to Castlecops and read the notes about all the little tweaks you can do to clean up the drive...remove the clutter... and while you are at it tweak up that registry - get rid of all the dead entries and extra lines of White Space. Oh how I rue the moment I decided to follow this path!

So I get everything really spiffied up. Ran a defrag. All sorts of good stuff. And I am doing the last reboot with something else that needs to run in Safe mode....I miss the sequence and hit the reset button to start over and KAPOW! I AM SO SCREWED!

Some how I frag the registry and can't boot up. Everything is toast city.

What happened next you ask? Coming soon!