It's all Geek to Me

"It sounds like a geek project ," that was my dad's chief computer guy, Michael, to me after I asked him to advise me on reinstalling my operating system.

"Does that mean I can't do it?" I replied questioning my own geekiness at this point?

Even the Geek Squad at Best Buy had advised I NOT do it. My inner-geek ego was faltering a bit.

"No. I just think you may have better luck paying somebody who is geekier than you and can put this computer in recovery mode and babysit it"

Is he attacking my babysitting skills? I am very attentive. Okay, one time my cousin I was babysitting, dropped off a swing and hit his head. One time. I was like 12. It was a high swing. Not my fault.

Okay, I also severely dehydrated my best friend's dog. We went for a run. It was hot. It was August. It was Houston. How was I supposed to know. He's a great Dane for Pete's sake....That Dane got me back though. He tore a whole in the upholstery of my dad's new boat.

Which I was babysitting....

Anyway, computers I can babysit. I babysit one everyday at work..watching the wires ..waiting for something to break. I also babysit-- Twitter, Blogger, Outlook, Dotcom (part of a web producers job)...they are very needy...but I knew that my idea of "locating drivers" was looking in the garage.

I consulted a computer guru at work.

"I'm going to re-install Windows XP on my laptop." I said to Bob.

After the laughter subsided. Seriously, it was almost 2 whole minutes of laughter, he said "Do you have all the disks?"

"Yes." I lied.

All I need to do now is recover my windows recovery disks. I'm sure they're somewhere...I keep them in a file called "disks u will always be able to locate... until your computer crashes." Filed somewhere next to bin 13.

While In Recovery mode ( of recovery disks) I can look for other things like all the backups I've made over the last few years. I'm sure I've done one backup. I mean at least one in the last three years?? One? Sarah please tell me you have done one?

My parents OWN a data storage company for keeping backups. They have for..I don't know..my whole life and I still have yet to figure this out.

Michael's back on the phone. "Maybe you SHOULD restore this computer. Maybe it's time to learn how."

He's right.

Off to babysit...

First step...Partition configuration?