HELP! I was working on a Word document, and went to save it, and got some message that the table was corrupt or some shit and blah blah blah, and I hit "OK," because that's what I do, and the document is GONE. Not on the thumb drive it was saved on, not anywhere in my C: drive, no where, as far as I can tell. How could that be?? And is there anything I can do to get it back?? Fuck.

You could try searching for all documents modified recently. Windows lets you specify that.

I tried that! It told me there were no Word docs modified today!

OK, and then I tried all documents, and there were some notepad docs called "rescued document," but at best they are full of gibberish. Some of the gibberish is some of the stuff I lost out of the Word doc. Still, UGH.

Poor you. t pats your head

And aren't you on vacation? That sucks. There should be no technological disasters on vacation.

I just don't understand what happened, but I think I have calmed down enough to get someone to email me a previous version of the document, and just recreate what I just did. The whole thing was so weird, though, that I'd love to understand why the fuck my computer decided to delete my document!!

And aren't you on vacation? That sucks. There should be no technological disasters on vacation.

Right??? Thanks. At least it's only semi-work, but now I have to call someone at my office, and bleh.

My printer is driving me mad: when you ask it to print an envelope it prints on whatever paper you asked it to print the document previous to the envelope, i.e., if you print on letterhead, it prints the envelop on letterhead, if you print on plain paper it prints on plain paper - but not on envelopes.

It's an HP Cp;pr :aserKet 2605dtn - any ideas? Is this something I fix in the printer? Or something I fix in Word?

Never mind.

(I had the default printer tray for envelopes listed incorrectly.)

Sometimes I hate technology because I really don't recall changing the default and yet it went from printing envelopes properly to not.

As I mentioned in natter, the hard drive in my laptop died over the weekend. It's not backed up, which is my own damn fault (the data is not *that* important, but I would like to keep my software). I have purchased an external drive and software to do backups in the future. For the present, does anyone have any experience with data recovery for a laptop hd? Particularly cost? I have a Dell Latitude D800, if it matters. Dell recommends the following vendors for data recovery-- any yeas/nays? I have no idea what something like this costs and the data is not worth more than maybe $750 to me.

Ontrack (Kroll) 
DriveSavers 
SalvageData Recovery Service Lab 
ActionFront Data Recovery Labs 
CBL Data Recovery Technologies 
Iomega Data Recovery Service

If you can hook up the laptop to another working computer, try get data back. It was awesome and recovered all my data on an external HD.