Dolphin’s Dock

For all my excitement about getting my MacBook back tomorrow, my heart lept into my throat when, upon booting up my PC at home, I saw “Detecting IDE Drives…” pop up on the screen; and then stay there.

Of course I have two harddrives in my PC (one fairly new), and the vast majority of my files are backed up on the newer drive.  It would have been a hassle to retrieve them of course (I’d probably have had to connect that drive to TheBoyfriend’s computer, copy the files on to his harddrive, then wipe mine and install Windows on it, and finally copy the files back to my computer), but at least I wouldn’t have lost everything.  I would however have lost 7 hours of freelance work that I’d done this weekend and hadn’t backed up.

Fortunately, the particular IDE drive causing the problem turned out not be the harddrive (either of them) but the floppy drive.  Floppy?  Do I still have one of those?  Yeah, but seeing as I haven’t used it in years, if something was going to fail, I’m glad it was that.

Posted on November 12th in tech | Permalink

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