F'n Parents Options

[impala454]

I leave my f'n computer open and vulnerable for one f'n day to troubleshoot incoming FTP & RDP session problems, and my f'n computer illiterate parents decide to fall for some fake UPS email and click on it and run it. Damn thing took over their comp and rebooted it, and by the time they come ask me what happened it had taken over mine and completely hosed the MBR or something because it wouldn't completely boot....

F'N A

guess it's a good thing my laptop was off and I have an extra comp in the closet I can use to copy down some stuff.

[impala454]

in other fun news, while I was messing with these drives last night and using the WD diag software to determine what the prob was, I decided to just go ahead and completely douche the boot drive with zeroes to clear it off, and accidentally began the zero write on my storage drive (a 1 TB western digital)... I realized it at about 2% complete so hopefully I didn't lose anything. I have a backup of it on my external drive which was off, but still, would lose the last few weeks of work I've done on my new site (all of it) as well as a bunch of family photos taken last week...

I'm trying out some recovery software, hopefully it will work, says it's found like 20,000 files after about 8 hrs on that drive already so I'm hoping I can get it all back. will definitely be setting up some sort of nightly backup of project/photo directories once I get everything back to square 1.