Death of Data
Last night I had a long evening alone with the girls and my niece. After cooking them supper and watching Lisa finally get the hell off American Idol (thanks for all the off-key notes, ‘Lis), I head to my place of solace—the computer.
I’m sure most geeks’ wives wonder why we work all day on a machine and can’t wait to get home to our own—don’t we get tired of it?
If you’re a geek, you’re probably laughing right now. Otherwise, that’s a no. I love my home machine. It has all the goodies and toys and games that my work machine lacks.
So as I’m happily clicking around and checking out some of my favorite blogs/webpages for the day, I noticed that my D drive disappeared.
“Frackin Windows,” I mutter as I reboot.
I’m greeted with the following:
FIXED DISK 0 NOT FOUND
FIXED DISK 1 NOT FOUND
Um. What? From inside my machine I hear the dreaded “Click-Whrr” sound:
Click..Whrr Whrr Whrr…CLICK! Whrr Whrr Whrr…
This, if you didn’t know, is the sound of a dead hard drive. But that’s not the rub: The rub is that both of my hard drives were not coming up. Fixed Disk 0 is my C: drive and Fixed Disk 1 was my D drive.
Long story short, a small miracle occured and my 60GB drive started up—this was what I thought was my D drive. So all of my C drive—years of work on Star Chamber, Fires of Heaven, email, family pictures, all gone…
Until it booted and I was presented with my regular desktop, wallpaper, and surroundings. My stuff was still here! Though I had lost my D drive and all of its mp3s (10GB+ worth) and various TV Shows I had downloaded (Battlestar Galactica is so good), I’m okay. It was a ‘spare’ drive and I treated it as such. Luckily I had reinstalled Windows at some point on the newer 60GB drive and I was okay.
Needless to say, I was saddened but hopeful.
Just like the carpenter’s house is falling apart, the network admin’s home computer is never backed up. So that’s being remedied this evening with another procured hard drive. We’ll see how it goes.
Until then, I hope you know where your backups are.
Oh, well if I ever caused you trouble
Oh, no I never meant to do you harm
4 Comments:
With both of em going down like that, I'd be suprised if the problem was the drives, unless you wallpapered the thing with magnets or something.
Motherboard or power supply'd be what I'd check oot.
After this story, I'd consider this theory proved:
"The holy grail of tech support is the reboot" --misterorange
This reminds me of the time I was pretty sure my harddrive crashed so I removed it from the machine and proceed to dismatle it for the purpose of display. Every geek needs to have an opened harddrive on a shelf. The older the harddrive the better.
Whenever I hear stories like this it reminds me of the Tao Of Backup:
http://www.taobackup.com/
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