Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

That scream you heard

See the pretty desktop, all uncluttered by icons?

That's because all my icons are gone. That's because this is a brand-new sparkling clean hard drive, devoid of programs, devoid of data.

Shortly before leaving for the hockey game I went to download some pictures, and when I booted up I got a message that said

Unable to start Windows.
Vitalfiles.sys is corrupt.
You are hosed.
Don't you wish you had backed up all your data?

Press R to destroy everything you've worked on in the last two years.

It may not have said that exactly; I'm working from memory. And I do have a backup, but I admit it's from probably Christmas time or so, and I have taken a bitch of a lot of pictures since then, including the ones of Jim.

I know, I really need to start doing real backups if I care about the photos. I know, I know, I know.

And since I knew I hadn't been doing it, I burst into tears, much to the annoyance of Victor.

While I went to the game, he went to Comp USA and bought a new hard drive. He's asleep now, so I guess it will be tomorrow before I see if I can rescue the data.

You know the saying about no atheists in foxholes? I think there are no atheists with bad hard drives and no backups.

Posted by Nic at March 19, 2006 12:37 AM | TrackBack