A Computer of One's Own

After my initial hysteria, C calmed me down and explained the reason why the fancy backup/restore system wasn't working was because, honey, there was no consistently functioning hard drive to restore it to. Sure, the computer would start, things would happen, but when the hard drive keeps failing a few seconds in, you can't restore anything in that time. In other words, I hadn't lost a thing. The backed up data just couldn't be accessed until we fixed the hardware. Once he patiently explained this concept in small words a few times, I was no longer frothing at the mouth.

Long story short, I have a fully functioning computer again and I didn't lose a keystroke. You would never believe I'm considered somewhat of a techie at work. Point is I understand software - or at least the software I work with. Hardware is completely a mystery to me.

I'll be blushing furiously under my desk now. And thanks.