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To: thecow who wrote (40134)	3/15/2004 7:49:19 PM
From: H Peterson	Respond to of 110642

To all that tried to help me with my Excel problem, thank you. I just restored the 2 files I couldn't open with a back up I had. They now both open. The files must have been gotten corrupted somehow. Good lesson to keep backups current.

To: thecow who wrote (40134)	3/17/2004 1:48:54 AM
From: Martin E. Frankel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110642

TC and All, Had an interesting disaster tonight in my office. Using a server with WIN 2000 Pro hardwire networked to a client computer. The "server" was on, but not being used. One of my secretaries was using the client and was going to turn it off when suddenly the monitor screen went blue with an error message (mostly hieroglyphics) a few lines long, but with the following at the end... "Dumping Physical Memory". I am NOT connected to the internet so no possibility of viruses, spyware, trojans, etc.. After about ten minutes with no activity (harddrive light on client off and no sounds), I held the restart (power) button in to reboot... hoping the scan disk would resolve the problem. Surprise!! During the boot up, it checked the floppy and then stopped saying "Boot Failure. Insert System disk and click enter". I have the WIN 2000 Pro CD, but no system boot disk! When I tried to reboot again, I clicked setup and there appears to be a floppy drive and CD drive... but no harddrive. Obviously, the computer is suddenly not seeing the harddrive. I tried to change it (without saving), but the only options after harddrives were "none" or "disable"... no enable. Now I'm not even sure what to do if I had a system boot disk! Please help!! Many thanks, Marty