I had yet another hard drive crash. This is becoming a habit. It doesn’t matter which dies…the one with all your graphics programs, you gotta reinstall them all; your main hard drive…you gotta reinstall them all :p But yeah, the main was worse because I couldn’t boot up to get to any of the data on my secondary drive, like my blog password which I made so long and tricky I can’t remember it.

My old computer I had reformatted my main drive and then pretty well did nothing with it so talk about starting from scratch. I think it is in my future to add these important files to both computers. Especially with the luck I’m having with drives lately.

I do not have the software reinstalled yet for the classes I’m taking so guess I’m getting behind right from the start. Got my ftp program up and managed to restore my email so it wasn’t all lost.

I was having some confusion after reinstalling Firefox today after it freaked out on me. It kept telling me it was using Flash player 9 something when I had updated and installed to the latest one. So I couldn’t figure out where it was even coming up with Version 9 and I also had some confusion about different versions for different browsers?

From what I can figure IE and whatever browsers that are similiar use active X controls where Opera and Firefox do it as a plugin. No where on Adobes site can I find anything explaining this, however when I went to download the flash player in IE, it offered me options it didn’t in Firefox, like for which browser. So I downloaded both. Uninstalled the previous version using Adobes uninstaller because that seems to be the only way that works.

Where did I learn all this from? I’m glad someone is on the ball here. Go read these three articles at cnet: A heads-up on Abobe Flash Player, Black-eyes for Adobe and Time to update Flash player. Here’s how. Then I went to Secunia Scan like he recommended and found out that my Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Contribute, and the recently installed Adobe Air were all using outdated versions. Yeah, I guess I should get around to those upgrades, huh? I don’t use Flash through those except Adobe Air for my Tweetdeck. But it also found other things that needed updating like my Java, so it’s worth the scan.

I’m happy to say my Flash appears to be using the latest version everywhere now. What a hassle, I’m not believing there isn’t more information about this out there.

Okay, my hard drive crashed and burned. I suppose I should be glad it wasn’t my boot drive but I’d have preferred that since this one had ALL my graphics programs, all my pictures, everything important to me on it. Gah, I had a warning when a couple times I got the “this drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?” message but it always straightened up. Then there was the error a few weeks ago that had literally thousands of file errors, most in my Bryce mats. I ran chkdsk and it fixed it and from what I could see, my Bryce suffered no ill effects. I had a premonition and actually copied my LVS pdfs elsewhere and was working on doing the same with the rest. So, looks like I might not be getting at my Illustrator class too quick.

I think it would be worth it to me to pay for data recovery. I read that putting it in the freezer might make it work but I don’t think mine is a mechanical failure. There were no strange noises or any clue that something was seriously wrong (yeah, yeah, like the errors I’ve been having weren’t a clue :p). I am seriously not happy.