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I am stupid - redux

Posted: 02/26/2006 05:57 PM | permaLink

Tags: coffee tech

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!!!

(02/26/2006 01:01 PM)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.

(02/27/2006 10:38 AM)739 said:

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

(02/28/2006 07:47 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!

(03/03/2006 10:28 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...