Michael Bolton
MDilly | 02.26.06 - 10:15 am | #

I paged Don and Andrea for you. If you need me I'll be down in Affiliate Sales punching Peter Corl in the face.
cW | Homepage | 02.26.06 - 12:18 pm | #

SoulTrainDat: either the Beastie Boys or Bill Clinton.
cW | Homepage | 02.26.06 - 12:19 pm | #

Steve Winwood
bc mi | 02.26.06 - 3:32 pm | #

i got to touch the imac today. i think i want one.
crsmal | 02.26.06 - 9:20 pm | #

Elton John.

Hans, you should buy Apple products like I do. I went to Costco last weekend, saw they had a bin full of iPods, grabbed one for me and one for the wife, and now all is well in the Dan K. household.
Kois | Homepage | 02.26.06 - 11:32 pm | #

wha...? costco has ipods? that's cool. I just checked their site and found some ipod accessories but no actual ipods. maybe it was just an in-store special?

how much did you pay? were they video ipods?
hans | Homepage | 02.27.06 - 1:15 am | #

#1 - i don't know everything about the windows file hierarchy (an understatement) but i would think your photos would be under c:documents and settings[your username]my documentspictures. if not, one thing i would do is find someone that has the same software that you used to import/organize your photos, and see where their pics are located.

#2 - bad idea. nowadays, even like-branded computers have particular items in the system flder that they need to access and run hardware. if you had identical systems, maybe. still, i wouldn't. no reason to destroy a perfectly good laptop.

#3 - but you may need a software data recovery tool to get at them - for mac, i've used 'data rescue' and always been able to get what i need - it's usually not the files that get corrupted, it's the catalog system that knows where the files are. the software will try to rebuild that catalog file, and if unsuccessful, will try to generate a list of recoverable files by looking at the raw data.

#4 - if the pictures are REALLY valuable, you can probably get the data from a company like drivesavers. but it's expensive (though the more specific you can be about what directories you want to recover, the less expensive. if you tell tham to recover the whole drive, it will run you ~ the cost of that macbook pro you covet). i will say that, in my experience, data rescue does the same thing they do, and i'm sure there's a pc equivalent. i'd be happy to try data rescue on it (it won't be able to repair the windows catalog, i don't think, but since photos are platform-independant, i think it may do that.)
isired | 02.27.06 - 3:20 am | #

soultraindat = michael jackson.
isired | 02.27.06 - 3:20 am | #

actually costco is where i touched the imac.
crsmal | Homepage | 02.27.06 - 6:35 am | #

at costco, if you want a mac or ipod, do you need to buy 12?
Joe | Homepage | 02.27.06 - 8:38 am | #

no.

six packs.
crsmal | Homepage | 02.28.06 - 6:35 am | #