Had to call in the GEEK squad today!..

[TDC57]

YES I made the ultimate / rookie mistake!, Lessened learned the hard way!.

To make an extremely long story short, the home computer suffered a critical era and ultimately I had to re-format my hard drive! IE losing everything for the past four years.. 200+ gig of crap..

YES I never backed up anything!.. (IE) Rookie mistake!.. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I did pay the price!.. I’ve paid the geek squad $190.00 to save all of the files and pictures I had, then I went out and spent another $100 on a 500 gig external hard drive to back up everything I had.. (little late!) I know but I’m that much better off now..

This problem happened on Thursday afternoon and I’m still trying to recover my system.. more than 15 hrs at it, I’ve now successfully downloaded and updated the basic window system & McAfee programs and have all of my old files on the external hard drive waiting to be installed..

Now / for the next 10+ hrs (give or take a few) I’ll re-installing all of my programs I had, then I get have the ultimate enjoyment of going thru my external hard drive and copy and paste back into the original programs.

So to recap!, if I had spent $100 on an external drive and backed up everything I had (before) I would have saved myself lots of money and TONS of wasted time to ultimately get back where I was (3 days ago)..

Moral of the story!,, spend the $100.. Get the external hard drive and for GOD sake!.. back up your crap..


P.S.
There’s one / two things that did come out of it to my benefit, I was able to talk with the wife (who knows nothing about computers) and ended up with a total of 2 gig of SDR, 400 MHz memory and a 1 gig Geforce video card..

P.S.S.
I would post a picture of all my programs and manuals laid out but I’m not that for into installing the programs yet.

What a way to start he new year!.. I get a new computer (so to speak)..

Have a great one guys and I’m sorry I just needed to vent!, let you know I fricked up!, (IE) don’t pull a TDC.. LOL.LOL.. (backup your system before it’s too late!).. and for god sakes stay off those (cough / sex sites!)..

Have a great night everybody!..