I just pulled one of THE biggest bone-headed f*ck ups in my entire life. Where to start...
I have two hard drives: an 80GB and an 8GB.
The last two days my computer has been doing some very strange things. I wont get into it because it really doesnt matter now... things reached that overall weirdness state where I decided to do a clean format of the HD and start fresh. So I begin by moving all the important stuff that I want to keep onto the smaller, unused hard drive... things like 4 GB worth of music, stored family pictures/albums, game(s) info (Aces High sounds, settings, mods and toejam from other games (you know how many individual user made Addons I had for OFP?), important documents I used for school, tax information, you name it, I had it on there.
So I'm thinking, "Cool, this'll be a snap, I've done this many times before." I throw in the Win XP CD, boot off of that, and blow away the wrong friggin harddrive. I have no clue HOW it happened, I did NOT notice til WinXP was already installed, and I am a complete MORON for doing so. After all hell broke lose in my household, I decided to come here and explain my story.
I know there are things that un-format drives recently formated (i think... there MUST be) ... I have never had to actually use one. Please, tell me these things exist and that they WORK so that I might not hang myself in the morning.
I put my eggs all in one basket and I'm forever going to be slapping myself for this horrible horrible mistake. I need your help! Guide me!
Thanks,
octavius, the extremely rattled.
[PS: The only GOOD thing that came about is that I found out my ethernet connection via motherboard WASN'T hosed after all this time (no more cable modem => usb connection for me)]