Nicknames
My father’s fondest nickname for me as a child was “troublemaker”.
Why? Because of my uncanny ability to break anything and everything.
If the tv was on the fritz, I’d walked past it. The phone not working? I’d touched it. The rice burnt? I’d hit a button too much.
Mosty it was because I had *just* enough knowledge to know how to take things apart (toasters, eye glasses, watches, small woodland creatures) and too short of a term memory to remember how to put the pieces back together. (Poor bunny. Really)
My brother’s for me was “Big Mouth”.
Let me tell you.
Holy fricking A. Both trouble maker and “Big Mouth” are at it again.
Troublemaker successfully trashed two computers this evening.
a) Spark that killed off the power on my Emachine. .. not to mention an FDisk error which means that either *EVERYTHING* is gone or *EVERYTHING* will be really expensive or time suckage to recover.
b) The Gateway does not recognize any hard disks. Neither the master, nor the slave. Nada. And this from attempts to reformat the disks from NTFS to Fat32 so I could reinstall win98 (over win 2K) on this computer so that it could be networked effectively as an file server/storage for the Emachine.
How’d this happen?
Oh, figured the best way to get the gateway’s drives to be reformatted to Fat 32 was to slave it over to the Emachine on XP. Woops. Only format’s in NTFS. Looked for the Fdisk function and thought I could use that to select the drive to make that happen on. Uh… woops.
And then the spark resulted from multiple drive/power/pin cord swap outs. Mother fricker. At least it didn’t touch the mother board. Hopefully it’ll be a relatively painless fix to get the power replaced.
Ya see? Just enough knowledge to be dangerous. To myself.
Frick on a stick. Help please? Any ideas? Pretty pretty please. I’m about ready to bawl my eyes out. Seriously.
All my online photos for the last 3 years are on the emachine. All my articles, emails, contact information, (well plaxo can at least back up the contacts) writing projects, and *gulp* various other programs, archived media files and etc. was on that machine.
When I ran Fdisk I think it just created a partition marker and didn’t actually format (didn’t take but a few seconds to reboot… and then to realize that something was tragically fucked up)
Oy veh.
If I don’t write you back an email in the next few days, I hope you’ll understand and forgive me.
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