All GONE
The desktop that was re-assembled during the Deepavali weekend 3 weeks ago was infected with virus last week. The wireless keyboard could not be detected. And system folder had less than 800MB of space left due to my bad planning of hard disk space.
Hence, after my paper yesterday, I set out to reformat my old hard disk and partition the new 80GB one. It was all easy enough, because there were plenty of space to move my files around as I reformat each drive.
Except that when I was moving files from the last drive, one folder simply could not be copied over. The message "Access is denied" keeps popping up, and restarting of computer did not help.
The folder is called "My Documents".
Now, I keep all my documents in a folder called "Documents", because I thought it silly to sort through folders in alphabetical order if everything starts with a "My" in front. (My Music, My Documents, My Pictures, My eBooks... so duh!) Only msn chat history goes into the default "My Documents", while all documents are saved in a folder called "Documents" sans "My".
So I thought I shall just format away the drive without trying to save the folder "My Documents", since I'll only lost msn chat history which is useless anyway.
And, ladies and gentlemen, here comes the tale you have all heard before,
When I restarted my computer, and clicked on the folder called "Documents", there was only ONE folder - my msn chat history. Nothing else.
All my precious documents have been reformatted into empty bytes . Every softcopy thing I have ever owned since we first got a computer in 1996, is gone.
Photos taken in China, loads of keepsake emails, resumes, Excel templates I keep for pride, documentation of sweat and blood work, creative writings, full sets of my blog entries, monwai's video, other video files, OMC minutes and budgets and... I don't wish to remember what else.
And the god damn thing is, before I started the whole reformatting work last night, I still thought to myself, "Want to backup?"
"Aiyah, don't want lah, can save my blank DVDs for other things."
I am a pompous idiot for not heeding the age-old advice called BACK UP. Kill me, please!
I am inconsolable.
Hence, after my paper yesterday, I set out to reformat my old hard disk and partition the new 80GB one. It was all easy enough, because there were plenty of space to move my files around as I reformat each drive.
Except that when I was moving files from the last drive, one folder simply could not be copied over. The message "Access is denied" keeps popping up, and restarting of computer did not help.
The folder is called "My Documents".
Now, I keep all my documents in a folder called "Documents", because I thought it silly to sort through folders in alphabetical order if everything starts with a "My" in front. (My Music, My Documents, My Pictures, My eBooks... so duh!) Only msn chat history goes into the default "My Documents", while all documents are saved in a folder called "Documents" sans "My".
So I thought I shall just format away the drive without trying to save the folder "My Documents", since I'll only lost msn chat history which is useless anyway.
And, ladies and gentlemen, here comes the tale you have all heard before,
When I restarted my computer, and clicked on the folder called "Documents", there was only ONE folder - my msn chat history. Nothing else.
All my precious documents have been reformatted into empty bytes . Every softcopy thing I have ever owned since we first got a computer in 1996, is gone.
Photos taken in China, loads of keepsake emails, resumes, Excel templates I keep for pride, documentation of sweat and blood work, creative writings, full sets of my blog entries, monwai's video, other video files, OMC minutes and budgets and... I don't wish to remember what else.
And the god damn thing is, before I started the whole reformatting work last night, I still thought to myself, "Want to backup?"
"Aiyah, don't want lah, can save my blank DVDs for other things."
I am a pompous idiot for not heeding the age-old advice called BACK UP. Kill me, please!
I am inconsolable.
posted by kite @ 12/08/2004 01:39:00 pm
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