A few weeks ago our computer crashed which, in itself is not a big deal since all our documents are stored on the network. In the process of restoring it however, the network storage drive (that houses all our pictures, music, etc.) failed to boot up. Anyone who has lost this type of information can attest to the feeling of, well, loss that results. Ever since I have been in a bit of a computer-related depression and my faith in electronics has been shattered.
I am writing this post as part of my healing though and things are starting to turn around. I was able to recover our pictures and the computer is at the point now where I can begin to re-build our music collection and continue to retrieve more files off the network drive (the drive is fine, just the enclosure has failed). If anyone can help me rebuild the boot-sector of a linux ext3 drive, then recover all the data, please let me know!