Crash and Burn
Microsoft recently released updates for the Windows XP that caused two dynamic link libraries to conflict with each other and caused some error message to pop up every time you boot your computer (click this link for more details and how to resolve this issue). For the non-techies out there, bottom line is: Microsoft made a boo-boo, big time.
In any case, I had to re-install a lot of my applications and during the process, it asked me to either copy the installation files locally or run it from the DVD installer. Hoping to make my life less miserable, I chose "locally".
What I didn't realize was that it detected my EXTERNAL hard drive instead of the internal storage, formatted, and loaded the installation files.
I can hear the groans and moans of people who understood what happened.
There goes four years of accumulated knowledge, documents, trackers, music, pictures, porn... ah i didn't mean to include that, but I have to be honest about missing the knowledge... ok, ok, the porn. Darn.
Again, I can hear the groans and moans of people who understood what happened. And I meant it as how YOU'd want to interpret that line. :P
Seriously, my passion is photography and having my digital memories wiped out is like a major heart attack. Good thing I still have the presence of mind to dig up some file recovery tools over the net and recover some of the pictures from the hard drive.
Oh well, gives me another excuse to clean the dust from my back pack and hit the road.
In any case, I had to re-install a lot of my applications and during the process, it asked me to either copy the installation files locally or run it from the DVD installer. Hoping to make my life less miserable, I chose "locally".
What I didn't realize was that it detected my EXTERNAL hard drive instead of the internal storage, formatted, and loaded the installation files.
I can hear the groans and moans of people who understood what happened.
There goes four years of accumulated knowledge, documents, trackers, music, pictures, porn... ah i didn't mean to include that, but I have to be honest about missing the knowledge... ok, ok, the porn. Darn.
Again, I can hear the groans and moans of people who understood what happened. And I meant it as how YOU'd want to interpret that line. :P
Seriously, my passion is photography and having my digital memories wiped out is like a major heart attack. Good thing I still have the presence of mind to dig up some file recovery tools over the net and recover some of the pictures from the hard drive.
Oh well, gives me another excuse to clean the dust from my back pack and hit the road.
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