Regarding this contest...

[chilihost]

Originally posted by GeorgeTH
And despite good backups and undamaged hds it took ages to get everything back to 'usable'

I know its a nightmare, one good thing was that I bought a brand new laptop at the end of Sept and that forced me to do a proper backup to CD of everything...well, I thought it was everything, but I missed my email so now I completely lost 4 years of correspondence. And the disk was totally fried so there was no way of even attempting data recovery!

Oh well, live and learn, at least no one got hurt

cheers,
Luke