On losing your life

May 28, 2007 at 7:44 PM
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No, not a post about death, but something almost as bad. I'll set it up for you.

I was finally getting around to selling my old computer. "Hurray!" I thought, "I'll just hook up my external drive to it, copy the files I want off it, and then reformat." Perfect! Easy as pie.

Things went smoothly during the install, and I happily rebooted my computer. It wasn't until I tried to install something else that I noticed something was amiss.

My heart sank.

It would seem in my haste, I selected the wrong drive, and managed to reformat the drive that had everything on it.

My Music.

My Pictures.

My Schoolwork.

My contract work.

My backups.

Gone.

I quickly hit the 'net and found a program to restore the files. I think I managed to get about 60-75% of them back, but my school papers (the ones I didn't post online) seem to be forever condemned to the bit bucket. I've managed to lose a big chunk of what I've done in the last five years within the space of 20 minutes.

Time Machine can't come fast enough.