The good news is frying a motherboard most times will not affect your hard drives. Glad to hear you got your photos and your wife didn't have to beat you up.
Yes, it's definitely good to transfer those special photos to disk or at least a backup second drive. Better yet, print them at home or take the disk to Kinkos, or the like, and get them into an album. As much as I enjoy the digital world and the ease in which taking photos has evolved, it makes me wonder if future generations are going to enjoy our photos like we enjoy family photos of 50+ years ago.
It's too easy to lose photos electronically. Hard drives crashing and CD's degrading and virus's trying to get us all the time. Are we going to have old digital photos to share with grandchildren and their children if we don't put them into some kind of permanent/tangible shape or form? I know I'm guilty in thinking my photos are safe on my computer... when they really aren't.
We have been getting some of the better ones printed out at the store.
Geez, didn't mean to climb on a soapbox here.... sorry!
