Well, the day started off not too bad, apart from some coding that required updating.

But around teatime, disaster struck - my PC came to a standstill, so I decided to do a backup to my external drive, and do a complete format (must have had a blonde moment!).

I didn't realize that I had accumulated over 140Gb of data, and had only 8Gb on my main drive!! The backup transfer took over an hour, and that was with deleting files I didn't really need. Then I reformatted my...