Uninterruptible Power Supply
So I wake up this morning hoping to finish up development on a piece of work that I am doing to find that my day will be longer than expected. I try to spin up a Virtual PC (VPC) of the ArcGIS 9.1 development environment I have and Virtual PC tells me it cannot find it!
That would usually be OK. I have a clean VPC image of ArcGIS 9.1 and dev environment so normally I would just synchronize the source code and I am off and running. Not today.
I have been working on this new functionality for about 4 days now and have not bothered to add it to source control as it is not ‘ready’. So if I do not try and solve the problem I will lose out of 4 days of blood, sweat and most definitely tears.
It turns out that the storms that have been causing the amazing sound and light shows around here with the occasional power fluctuation were not liked by my external hard disk that is home to all of my VPCs 
I have had this trouble before and I was determined to go straight to BestBuy that morning and get a UPC. I didn’t and it was just a matter of time before it happened again I guess. The last time I had to spend about 4 hours persuading the hard disk it was OK and let me access the files so when it happened this morning I sighed, brewed some coffee and got ready for the fight.
It turns out that good ol’ chkdsk saved the day and I am back in. All the files *seem* file but time will tell I guess.
I am going to buy a UPS this time. Honest.
