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Laptop Blues Again

Hello friends.

A few days ago, my HP laptop that I purchased less than a year ago would not wake up from the night before. I locked the screen as I left it unattended while the computer eventually went to sleep. What happened between then and the next day, I've no clue. I troubleshot the obvious conditions and still nothing. I contacted HP via live chat and they basically walked me through the same things again. Still nothing! During the latter part of the conversation after giving up my serial and purchase date etc, my tech told me it's strongly possible that the motherboard had crashed.

I've been doing much better with backing up since I've had a couple of failures in the past which I have lost data. My last backup was on December 27, 2007, which is not that bad. And honestly, I was getting ready to do a current backup the day of the failure because I'd acquired several pictures and had created a few graphic designs since then. I'm glad I do have my writing projects backed up on a memory stick. :)

I still hope they don't have to reformat my drive when changing out the motherboard. From my speculation, they shouldn't have to. I'm waiting for them to send me the RA and a box to return the laptop, and was going to put a note in it asking please not to reformat the drive. (Yeah right huh?) I'm going to contact them again online and make the same request. :) Whut?!

I even thought about pulling the drive out of the computer and install it in a enclosure kit and save all the contents to an external drive -- then reformat the hard drive. The tech even suggested I remove the hard drive and remove any content that I didn't want destroyed. He even sent me a link to a place where I could purchase an enclosure -- but of course I already have one. I should have saved the conversation, 'cause I'm thinking I may void the warranty if I tamper with the drive. So there it is – Laptop Blues. Lady's without her baby. I'd be sick if I didn't have this baby (studio desktop) although I try to stick strictly to recording on this one.

I'm still grinding with this music thing. Ya'll check my MySpace music page and hit ya gurl up if you're looking for tracks.

Peace and luv and light…

How to send a large PowerPoint 2007 file via email??? Help!

Hello all. I'm throwing this out there to see if I get any response from anybody googling. I've tussled with this most of the day yesterday and tried several different online storage areas and sorts of misleading services and still came up with no real answer to my question.

I have a presentation I've completed which is HUGE (about 71 megabytes). It's a wedding project I've put together for my family. I've created a hard copy on CD and will distribute those, but I want to also share the file online to those who MAY NOT have PowerPoint on their computers. (That's where it gets tricky!)

I receive PowerPoint presentations all the time via email. I know there has to be some conversion and/or compression program to shrink the file to a reasonable size for email delivery without major loss of quality. I don't want to pay an arm and leg for the program to get this done. Are there online services which host presentations of this size whereas the viewer can open it up with autorun without all the rigmarole of links and missing files?

Can somebody help a sistah out soon?!

Much luv,