A to Z

First off I'd like to welcome any new readers Essentially Inga may have.

In one of the comments left by a reader in my last post, there was a comment that that reader and I live in two very different worlds. Interestlingly enough, I think we are all a lot closer than we all think. I've come to this conclusion because on Saturday my hardrive on my computer crashed. I didn't know what to do so I did what I usually do which is call up my brother who lives three hours away and no longer has a PC (since he jumped onto the Mac train at Christmas) and doesn't always remember exactly what to do with my IT questions. I may not be the most eloquent when I am slightly histerical at that thought of losing my life that I have been compiling onto my computer.

The next thing I did was call Dell since E had no answer to my questions but rather loud laughs and cackles. I went through a series of options on the phone only to end up talking to some IT guy in India. (Apparently Dell outsources to everywhere now a days) We talked about all my options for about an hour and a half only to conclude that I didn't want to erase my hardrive, which I told him from the beginning, and that there was no solution for my problem besides erasing my hardrive. Obviously a solution was not going to be found unless I went to go talk to some people in person about my dilemma.


**This is a Dell. Although my computer is a Dell this one is not it. They look much cooler now a days with their fancy coloured fronts. Mine still looks pretty good.**

The next day I went to staples and got some information about how to take my hardive apart and install it into soem sort of encasement and transfer everything to the family computer, Apparently, this can all be done quite easily if you know what you are doing and if you know what kind of hardrive you have. FYI. There are two types. Three trips to the store and a lesson on hardrive adaptors tells you that.

So in the end I transfered the contents of my hardrive to my other computer and then pressed the frightening "Ctrl+F11" and have slowly been starting again. In a way its like when the earth is calling for the rain to come after a long draught. Refrshing and renewing.

The one thing that I don't really understand is the obstinant attitude that Dell was giving me about erasing my hardrive. If I tell you I'm not going to do something, don't tell me to do it. Give me a solution!