Sucky Saturday (More Like Sucky Week)

Apple, PCs, Tech, Video Games — By kurteng on September 26, 2009 10:47 am

So its 10:15am and I’m at work. But its been one hell of a week. Esp with my MacBook Pro (MBP). You’ve read my bio… I love gaming and I love computers. But unfortunately, Mac’s OSX doesn’t allow me to game, so I need Windows. I originally had a Windows partition of about 80GB which was more than enough for 3 games and other programs but no, I had to start yet another game: Aion. It is yet another MMO that I’ve started playing just like World of Warcraft but the graphics are far superior. Not to mention entirely brand new content and learning everything all over again. But I digress…

SO, I now need about 130GB for my Windows partition. Easy! Just use Boot Camp Assistant. At least I thought it was easy… Boot Camp made my partition, I inserted my Windows installation CD and we were on our way. Until it came time to do the actual install. I chose the correct drive to install Windows, but it decided to completely reformat my entire hard drive. Now I’m screwed because I didn’t back anything up (let that be a lesson to you all) and I lost all my pictures (the reason I didn’t have recipe posts this week). Not to mention all my videos, music and other stuff…

I panicked just like anyone else would. But I remembered I had my back up hard drive for my MacBook. You see… the standard 320GB wasn’t enough space for me so I had upgraded myself to a 500GB. But that meant buying an external case. So I cloned my Mac Pro onto my backup 320GB HDD and popped it in to my MBP. I took the 500GB and tried some software recovery programs. Over the course of 4 days, I tried 3 programs: only 1 of which really worked… and of course it was the last program I tried. But this program let me scan and recover 1 file of a 5MB size or less. So I chose a picture at random and BAM! I got my picture back. That meant I needed to pay the $100 for the program to recover everything else. But needless to say I got everything back, pictures and all.

Now, would you pay $100 for 16GB of pictures… thousands of pictures, countless memories and events? In my opinion, it was well worth the money, and not to mention being able to use the program again if something happened (knocking on wood as I write this). So there’s the story of my endless week. I’m still installing everything and it will be taking me another week with at least a few dozen install CDs and countless internet updates. I hope to be back soon as soon as my MBP is back up and running to its full potential.

Cheers!

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