I had a hard drive get reformatted. I say “got” reformatted because I am still not real sure what happened. It was February 28th 2010 I was sitting in my living room watching Jimmy Johnson chase Jeff Gordon in the Shelby American at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was also the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I was curious how the U.S. Men’s Hockey team was doing and grabbed my laptop to check. I launched Google Chrome, I was evaluating it for a possible switch and I got page cannot be displayed message. The wireless was not seeing any networks. No big deal, I have had this happen a couple of times in the past when coming out of hibernation.

As the machine was shutting down I got up, went to the bathroom and headed into the kitchen for a drink. When I came back into the room and looked at the screen I felt woozy and threw up a little in the back of my throat. HP recovery was copying files. I knew the first thing it does is format the drive. Sure enough it had reformatted my drive. On top of that I was getting errors about corrupt files on the recovery.

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