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To: E. Charters who wrote (1489)	4/27/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Sounds like CIH to me... Did you accept software from or share needles with a known FAT-system user? I treat all my FAT and NTFS drives as temporary phenomena, with an unpredicatable time to failure. All data from Windows programs is saved via samba to the ext2 home directory, which gets gztarred up and saved to a separate machine every week. Sensitive material (kiddie-porn and nuclear secrets) are kept on an sfs partition. Sorry to hear about your loss. I read an article last year about a psychiatrist who specialized in counseling for people who had suffered from HD crashes and data loss (no joke). Apparently, the symptoms are similar to those of a death of a close friend or relative.