Hard drive problems - April Fools Contest

Sigh.  Having some problems with a hard drive.  My game for the April Fools Contest is on that hard drive.  Right now I have two options: try to fix the hard drive or restart from scratch.

I'm not exactly sure where it's failing at but I'm running into two different problems.

The hard drive is encrypted and there's a problem with the decrypting.  So I can't seem to access the hard drive.  The other problem is some boot files from that encrypted hard drive is messed up.  So I can't boot from that hard drive.  I'm not sure how I can start booting from an encrypted hard drive that doesn't decrypt.

Recovery
I looked around on the web and I think it's recoverable according to people with the same problem.  Some forums list step by step fixes but I run into errors halfway through those fixes.  It will take time to fix this and I don't know how long it will take.

Restarting
Restarting isn't as bad as it seems.  I already know how the layout is going to be and in general where everything is going.  Game structure isn't that hard.  The hardest part is the text.  Retyping the passages are going to be a pain and will not be the same regardless of how much I work at it.

Right now I'm leaning to restarting from scratch.  Recovery is an unknown both in time and of success.

April Fools Contest Game

Working on the April Fools Contest game.  Messing around with twine to see how it goes.  There are a bunch of great twine games so I want to see it goes.

Masculine Mystique by barabbas is the definitive game using the Twine engine.
Devious World by Skooma is an extremely promising game in it's own right.

Twine is an html choose your own adventure type engine.  All you need is a browser.  Players do not need to downloading anything except the game file itself.

A Contest Appears! - "April Fools Day"

New Contest over at TFGamesSite!

"April Fools Day"
Theme is Practical Jokes.

Plan on doing something for it.

Small update on everything else.  Real life recently ate up some of my time.  Projects are getting delay, sadly.  I'll try to get some time in at some point.