ready to turn the page...

decided against the BIOS upgrade as esupport wanted between $40-60 for the download....yeah...i don't think so. i decided to format my new internal hard drive (with the known good data on it), go with the hardware overlay program that came with my drive (which allows my pc to recognize the full capacity of the drive without flashing the BIOS) and than re-copy the files from my external firewire drive back to my freshly formatted interal drive. make sense? whatever!
it's not often that thirdthoughts sees fit to plug or advertise for anything or anyone, however in this case, i must whole-heartedly give my endorsement to:

when all is said and done, some 9 days after the original "crash" it looks like i have all of my original data, not only recovered, but now backed-up. it was a series of almost laughable events but the bottom line is, i'm back baby! props go to jeff for his part in this, the research and time spent trying things, and also to "pc inspector" for providing a most valuable tool free of charge. now, back up your data! and let us never speak of this again....
looking forward to taking this friday off of work as it is alaina's birthday. heading over to camp snoopy when she gets out of school. getting together for a small family thing on saturday. don't forget, mother's day is sunday! more later...