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The Life and Times of Jeff Woodman

I am stupid - redux

Posted: 26 Feb 2006 05:57 PM ::: 4 Comments ::: permaLink ::: Comments are closed.

So last night I get this bright idea: Wipe my new Dell computer's hard drive and install WinXP Pro. No big deal, right?

I got to the screen that allows you to format partitions. I noticed a large 80 GB chunk formatted as FAT. I deleted the partition.

STUPID! Stupid, stupid. I had just deleted all data on my external hard drive (I wasn't expecting it to show up with no OS booted, I guess). Well, bye bye, backups. Bye bye years and years of accumulated photos, textfiles, webpages, etc. I almost wept.

If I had a samurai sword, I probably would've committed Seppuku last night. ARRRGH!!!! But, on a lighter note, I realized that most of the backed-up information existed on one of my older PCs which had been decommissioned. So now I'm in the process of recovering what I can, and trying not to hate myself too much...

Never attempt a major computer operation without Coffee!!!

Filed under: coffee tech

acidsmile said...

don't do ANYTHING without coffee! nothing zilch nada. don't even speak to the person that understands you the most in the world. they wont even understand you, no matter your hardware.

26.Feb.2006, 01:01 PM

739 said...

It is bad! Please don't do SEPPUKU. Take it easy..

27.Feb.2006, 10:38 AM

Yara said...

Hey Jeff~ Thanx for dropping by, nice website u got here. Actually, something similar happened to me a few months ago, so I know how u feel... what really got to me was losing all my photos (used to have a huge collection), but I managed to get back most of them bit by bit =P Goodluck!

28.Feb.2006, 07:47 AM

Jeff said...

Thanks everybody... I managed to recover what was lost (about 95% anyway), and my freshly imaged computer is running well... *sniff* I love my computer...

03.Mar.2006, 10:28 AM