Just when everything seems to be going well, there always seems to be something to jump up and bite you on the arse. For me this week it was my PC. This is always bad news for my family as I’m an addict. I use my PC every day for emails, blogging and just avoiding real life really.
So on Tuesday when the hard drive failed to whirr, and the PC sat looking back at me displaying a black screen with just the words “Non System Disk or Boot Disk Error, Insert bootable Disk Then Press Enter” needless to say I was not a happy bunny. It wasn’t for lack of trying that it wouldn’t boot, oh no. 27 resets, and a few swift slaps to the side of the case, hard drive removal, gentle coaxing, and even violent shaking of the errant hard drive were attempted.
YES I knew I was wasting my time, it was an ex hard drive, it had turned its last revolution and was in technical terms, knackered. But that didn’t stop me from trying to force it to work to get my hands on all the data it contained which I hadn’t backed up the last time I did a back up (ie never before).
My hard drive crashed and burned, with all my passwords, and website backups, and blog posts, some pics (I did back those up regularly thankfully or my wife would have sent me to the same place as the hard drive, only much more painfully). Luckily I had a spare hard drive, which has got me back online with minimal downtime, but still I’m annoyed.
The hard drive failed at 18 months old, for which I could blame the manufacturer. But worst of all is the loss of my data, and for that I have nobody to blame but myself, and that’s really made me angry.