On Death and Dying: Ars Technica offers an account of the stages of grief involved in a hard drive crash.
Anger
Now I am really annoyed at myself for deleting the backup, but I have no clue what is going on. I reboot, set up another backup. It starts out fine, slows down to a halt, and the computer seizes up. About half done this time. Things are looking really bad. The hard drive is clicking in a threatening manner.
I reboot furiously and do it by hand, copying the Documents, Pictures, and Library folders from my user folder to the backup. E-mail is in Library, along with all my preferences, so this is everything irreplaceable. I don't have room for much else. Inexplicably I forget about the productivity applications on my drive, for which I don't have CDs with me, and instead backup World of Warcraft, which I got while home for Christmas (thanks mom!) and copy that over, filling up the available space.
[via Ars Technica]
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