Crash and Recover

Last Wednesday at work; I wanted to try out this webcam, the iSight. I forgot that I installed a dodgy driver about a year ago and when I tried to set the preferences of the firewire webcam it completely crashed causing my second partition to fail mounting. Christiaan helped me trying to get the stuff from my Powerbook, thinking about and trying all sorts of possibilities to access the hard disk or repair it, nothing worked...

So from Wednesday till last night I have been busy recovering files from my hard disk to my external LaCie drive, it was the only possible way to get to my files. I couldn't get into any folder nor partition on my computer. I knew one partition was already lost, the other was still visible so I made a backup of my prefs and some other stuff that I knew I didn't make a recent backup off. Like my email; that content changes every day...

Last night I repaired the hard disk and installed the system [Panther] and ran every update needed. This afternoon I was finally half way there and I could check my email again. On top of all this my modem broke down on Wednesday evening so I had no computer and no internet. Boy... I was completely lost without! And a bit bored too since I had to wait for the Data Rescue app to save my files.

Watching progress bars was another thing that I did for five days, annoyed by the lack of speed and the amount of time it took, that bar was as fast as a snail dragging itself thru the mud so in the end I gave up and found myself being surprised when A. told me that it was finally finished at some point.

On Thursday I spent most of the day trying to get the modem to run again and/or trying to get the connection to run again through A.'s modem that he picked up from his storage early in the morning. I couldn't get it to work. These things are not healthy for me and cause me to give up or get moody.

I sent A. an email on Wednesday morning after the crash happened to let him know that I would probably be in a bad mood that evening. I wasn't in such a bad mood after all to be honest, I guess because I already gave up on saving the hard disk and I was pretty sure that I made backups of all the important stuff, except for my email. When A. came home that evening he gave me a beautiful bouquet of long stemmed red roses. That was such a sweet surprise and it definitely made my day much better!!!