Stupid Moves 2.0

Well, it’s official. I seem to have misplaced my weekend! To bring my coming story into focus, most of you may remember me making mention of a new hard drive purchase and the need for a good disk cloning application? At any rate, it took two men and a boy to make the move happen, but I’m finally running off of my new SATA hard drive. Suffice it to say, the move was not as simple as you might expect. I’ll explain more tomorrow as we dive head first into DDOs, boot floppys (yes, even in 2006) and the total lack of native motherboard support.

So anyway, I managed to get everything moved over successfully. I then began the process of reorganizing my external hard drives. Since there was a ton of obsolete data that needed to be sorted through, I made a careful effort to move all of the super important backup data to the newest of the two external 200 gig drives. Everything went well there, so I then opened up my copy of Partition Magic. Once I was able to determine that all of my data was securely backed up, I initiated the process of re-partitioning my secondary external hard drive. Well, at least that was the plan…

I managed to wrap up everything within the program, then headed over to My Computer to verify that the drive labeling didn’t do anything out of the ordinary when I discovered something that quite literally made me howl in pain - the new backup drive data was missing!

With all of the speed and grace of a chicken on a hotplate, I stood up and began pacing back and forth frantically. My mind raced as I began to realize that every single piece of data that enabled me to do what I do in a day was now gone forever. My you know what was grass and the partition deleting application was elected the lawnmower. Needless to say, I was in serious trouble.

Then I noticed a function that I had not seen before. Undelete erased partition. I began to come back from that mental state people go to when they start to lose their grip on reality. I followed through the recovery functions and by gosh, I was sitting there looking at my old data! The recovery function saved the day! It was at that point that I quite literally stood up and began to do what some might describe as a dance to shame all other dances. Perhaps some form of happy dance? Thankfully I had the blinds closed.

Today, I am sitting here looking at a pile of backup DVDs and no less than two completely separate external hard drive backups. Let it never be said that I make the same mistake twice. Well, that is until the next time I end up pulling the same sort of bonehead maneuver while doing a system hard drive upgrade that is….

[tags]hard drive,dvd,sata,partition,mental state,hotplate[/tags]