Those who know me may know by now that I have quite a love-hate relationship with computers. I love using them, but things go wrong so often. It makes me so sad.

As I have been planning for a few weeks, I finally got around to reformatting my computer and reinstalling windows. Everything went fine until I came to switching on my 250gb external hard drive. Nothing. I tried a million times and a million approaches. Still the same. What worried me most was the strange ‘struggling’ sound from the hard drive.

It was at this point that my heart raced. I was scared. Very scared. Later I met my brother and we pondered the predicament. Though not before spotting some strange behaviour around the City Hall. Vikings!

He suggested disconnecting the drive from all the USB circuitry. A good idea. Took it home and connected it via IDE to Dad’s computer. It worked!

Boy was I relieved. Everything I own is on that disk. Everything! This was possibly the most worried I have been about my data. It’s happened before, but not to such a scale and at a time when data is so important to me, and when I have so much. Thankfully the problem was solved and everything is safe.

Rather than drowning my sorrows I went out feeling good. Ed Zealous were playing in The Pavilion as part of Rinka club nigh. I like Ed Zealous.

There will be daily, weekly, by-weekly and monthly backups made. This sorta thing will not get a chance to happen again!

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