This morning I turned on my trusty Lenovo laptop to find an unfamiliar site, the Rescue and Recovery screen. What it was apparently telling me was that I my system had failed and I needed to go through all of these steps to hopefully save my documents. Not only am I not the most technical person on the planet, but my husband is convinced that the electrical chemistry in my body works havoc with anything electronic. I'll be leaving a voice mail message for someone and my voice cuts off the message, and I don't have a shrill voice! Anyway, I called our IT guru and left him a message, but didn't hear from him for awhile because our MC's computer had crashed as well, and since she's the one who writes the checks she gets first dibs. Not wanting to cause further damage I decided to do nothing, I just left the laptop on and worked from my desktop until I got in touch with IT, which was about 3 hours later. (In the meantime, my home printer runs out of ink and my Treo crashes again, I'm telling you it's me!) When I spoke to Paul, he instructed me to bring it to the office but to turn it off, because the longer it stays on the more likely my hard drive will be corrupted. So for the next few hours I was so afraid that my unbacked-up computer with all of my listing information, budgets, etc., was gone, vanished, and that I was going to have to start my life as a Realtor over again. I have been crying on Facebook, Twitter, whoever would listen, all morning, because of my stupidity of not backing up my data.
Fortunately all was well, the computer came on fine for Paul and there is no damage to the hard drive. I of course went straight out and bought an external hard drive, where I'm committed to backing up my information daily and hiding it in a fireproof filing cabinet so it won't ever be lost, ruined or stolen. And that's why I'm leaving this post, so everyone will learn from me and do the same thing! They're on sale at Office Depot!
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