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Two days ago, I decided to add to my Facebook photo albums, by creating a 'Rowan' album. I already have one for Frazer, and one for Scarlett, which takes you through photos from when they were very first born, right up to this year, as recent as possible. But I don't have one for Rowan yet.

It was in creating this that I realised the earliest photos I could find of Rowan were of him at about 2 months old, and his first Christmas. This really upset me, as I know that somewhere, there are some lovely newborn pictures of him - in the birth pool, wearing his dinky first nappy (customised, no less!), and his first few days.

I've scoured the CDs we have, because our laptops keep breaking, and so I know any photos on the PC are those we're taken from disks made to back up photos. It turns out that I've taken pictures from all but one disk. This disk has dates on it, which include the date of Rowan's birth. It's also one of those disks that's been scuffed along the laminate floor by the look of it, as it's so scratched along the bottom. I remember that it never worked when I last tried it.

So yesterday I asked online if there's a way, or a company, or something that can save a scratched disk. Tracy recommended a free program online;
http://www.download.com/CD-Recovery-Toolbox-Free/3000-2242_4-10646814.html
Which is supposed to copy what's on your disk, so that you can burn it on to a new CD. I started to run it, but after a while it said it was no longer responding, and as there was no skip button or anything I had to close it.
I forgot to take the CD out of the PC though, and carried on emailing, surfing, trying to vent my frustration at the program. When I decided to try again, I shut down internet explorer and saw a box on my pc saying that it was importing the pictures and videos! It was on 110 that it had found, and after leaving it quite some time, I realised that the number was going up!

I left it running all evening, and when I went to bed I noticed that it had stopped 'importing' and was now in the process of starting something else. It took ages though, so I left it and went to bed.
When I got up this morning it had found 690(!!!) pictures and videos, and was asking me if I wanted to tag them, along with a little thumbnail of the first pic. I tagged them 'Rowan's birth' and let it run while we walked Tonks and had breakfast. It had got up to about 160 when Liam started ironing and blew the bloody fuse with the iron that I dropped the other day.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So now I'm upset.
I looked and the files already uploaded were ones I already have, recovered from other disks. This makes it all the more frustrating! Most of the pictures on that CD are ones I already have - but I can't pick and choose which ones I want from the disk.
I tried checking through the computer to see if I could get it started importing again, but the pc crashed on me. I took the disk out for a while to let it rest and and put it back in a couple of minutes ago. Still no response and I'm scared to check C: drive! I might run that program again.

No internet for me again today I suppose.