[AZTarHeel]

So I go home Friday afternoon to do some work on my computer and it freezes up. I reboot and it freezes up again. Then I reboot again, and it doesn't boot up at all, never getting past the Windows start up screen. Repeated attempts just make things worse...

I had a huge lump in my throat as I sent my computer off with a repair guy in town. In addition to hundreds (maybe thousands) of pictures of my daughter that I worried about losing forever, my Arizona League files were on that hard drive (as well as other OOTP stuff and some TDCB basketball stuff). I had backed up the Arizona League, but my backups were on the same hard drive that was no longer responding. YIKES!!

I still haven't heard back from the repair man -- I'm not very confident because my wife fried the hard drive on her laptop a few months ago, and my computer is much older -- but I did find backup copies of all my daughter's photos on the new external HD we bought a few months ago (that was all my wife's doing).

And I also found where I had made a second backup of my Arizona League files (which I had forgotten about). If in my fact my original hard drive is dead, I will lose two seasons, but those are two seasons I haven't posted here yet. Also, I'd lose all of my almancs from 1901-1916. But the story and basic history items will still live on, so this thread doesn't have to die a painful death. WHEW>>>

Just a friendly reminder, if you're attached to your OOTP leagues, back stuff up religiously -- and in different places.