I've had a bad day.
No, actually, it's not so much been a bad day as I'm anticipating what is to come. We had quite a fun day in fact, laughing a lot.
The really bad day will start when the email I have just sent is read. Then prepare yourselves for earth tremors of 6.5 on the Richter Scale.
You see I managed to wipe clean the hard drive on the computer in work.
And there is no-one else I can blame; it was simply my fault. And I am very simple.
Let's rewind.
For some time the computer has been telling me that we have a counterfeit copy of Windows. At last I decided to do something about it, ordered a legit copy and set to installing it today. So far so good.
Even though the wording on my screen wasn't exactly the same as the instructions I seemed to be doing everything all right, so when it said, 'Do you want to delete this partition?' I said,' Yes,' as it said on my sheet of paper.
'Are you sure you want to delete this partition?'
'Yes.'
'Once this partition is deleted, it is deleted; do you want to delete it?'
'YES!'
So that's what it did.
To me a partition is a bit not the whole. I thought I was just deleting the bit of the disc with the old and counterfeit software on. I didn't know it meant everything.
Absolutely everything. Wiped clean. Completely clean. Not a speck or iota of information left. All gone. And never called me mother.
If we had all the software CDs for word, Outlook, Powerpoint etc, I wouldn't be quite so far up the gym tree, but we don't and I am.
My boss wasn't in work today so I just emailed her to tell her; I didn't want it hanging over me all weekend. When she reads the email is when the doodah will hit the fan.
But it's not all bad. It gives me a chance to revamp my filing system, make it more efficient, and the computer should run faster without all the junk that was on there. Yes, there are lots of ways that this could be considered to be a good thing.
Just because we've lost all the programs and files, and information and addresses ...
I hear it's nice in Siberia at this time of year.
3 comments:
Man, if this isn't proof of the power of the word, I don't know what is. The destructive power of "partition". The problem is the people who write these technical manuals / instructions...English isn't usually their first language. Or if it is, they weren't very good at it; if they were, they'd be proper copy writers getting paid a lot more and getting their egos stoked every second hour of the day.
My condolences, by the way. Yikes.
Oh, Lord. I've accidentally deleted stuff before. It happens, especially with some of the really bad "instructions" you get. I just hope your boss doesn't go ballistic on you. Good luck!
Well done you having a virtual spring clean in Autumn!
Gentle hugs
Word was outtkryx ....what you're expecting?
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