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I have suffered a disastrous technological setback this weekend.

Toward the end of last week, I noticed that my work laptop had begun acting a bit strange–freezing at odd moments and taking longer than usual to open applications. So I asked Chris to check if my computer had somehow picked up a virus.

He ran a disk scan, and then the computer refused to boot up. From what I understood, apparently I had some bad sectors and one of them, unfortunately, happened to be in the area which Windows needed to access to start up.

Which meant, essentially, that Chris had to reinstall Windows, which consequently wiped out my hard drive and all my work documents.

This is the third time Chris has had to wipe out my laptop, but the other two times, the problem was related to using my very old keyboard with the docked laptop. Both times we backed up all my documents in advance and then sent the computer back to the manufacturer for repair. This time, though, the computer went from sluggish to dead in about 30 seconds, and everything was gone.

Chris ran a file recovery program on the laptop and was able to recover a bunch of files. This means that I am currently going through a folder of 10,000 jpgs to delete the pictures I don’t want to save. This is made more difficult because of those 10,000 jpgs, perhaps 1% are actually work-related and the other 99% are primarily Windows icons/graphics and internet cached images.

The average guy would have a lot of porn images in this folder to sort through, and here I am specifically thinking of one of Chris’s friends.

All anyone would have learned about me, though, is that I have an unhealthy obsession with houses and lawn care products.

Posted by: ssjane | December 9, 2007 | 12:54 pm
Posted in: This Life