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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Jacob" data-source="post: 247607" data-attributes="member: 26901">Who am I? Why am I here? I am a guy in IT who provides information to management and sales reps about the business. Forecast trends, sales and order history and the like. I use Oracle and MS Office Excel with database add-ins and MS Access. I write SQL but find the MS Access environment friendlier than MS SQL Management Studio. Right now I&#039;m on vacation screwing around with the company computer. That&#039;s what I do on vacation. I tried to mount the company PC&#039;s Windows 7 partition on my brand new &quot;Dell 2350 All-in-One&quot;, loaded with Haswell i7&#039;s, and Windows 8.1. I should have used a backup utility because I upgraded the Windows 7 Recovery partition to Windows 8.1 (so the Windows 8.1 OS would recognize the Windows 7 OS?).Does that make sense? Do any of you do stupid stuff like that? Having nothing to do on vacation but screw around with company property? Call me &quot;Incompetent Geek&quot; because I act on impulse without fully knowing what I&#039;m doing. Taking unnecessary risks that create crises that take time out of my day to recover. I hope nobody at work recognizes this post.So, I&#039;m here learning about recovering a lost partition, and for the Ghost software so I can make a true backup. Because, even though I am a 20-YEAR-IT-VETERAN, I do stupid stuff like blowing up hard drives all the time. While at work, I learned how to use DiskPart to make a drive &quot;unbootable&quot;. I hid in the cafeteria with a backup disk and a USB drive with boot information from a teammate&#039;s PC to recover the disk drive. I left early that day. At home, I repaired the boot sector with the Windows 7 installation disk.Another teammate still harps about killing his PC 10-years ago (the PC was in intensive care). I tried to flash the bios on battery power [the power adapter did not work]. It was a race between the battery and BIOS. The battery won. He took the limp PC to the Geek Squad. &quot;No&quot;, they said, &quot;whoever did this to your PC ought to be in jail.&quot; They did not even try to fix it. The true IT geeks don&#039;t trust me. Do you blame them?. How do I live with myself? How in the world do I still have a job in IT? Partly, I think, because of network resources such as Malware Tips who help people like me recover from stupidity, and hopefully before anybody at work finds out. I am thankful for this resource and the Ghost Software.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tom Jacob, post: 247607, member: 26901"] Who am I? Why am I here? I am a guy in IT who provides information to management and sales reps about the business. Forecast trends, sales and order history and the like. I use Oracle and MS Office Excel with database add-ins and MS Access. I write SQL but find the MS Access environment friendlier than MS SQL Management Studio. Right now I'm on vacation screwing around with the company computer. That's what I do on vacation. I tried to mount the company PC's Windows 7 partition on my brand new "Dell 2350 All-in-One", loaded with Haswell i7's, and Windows 8.1. I should have used a backup utility because I upgraded the Windows 7 Recovery partition to Windows 8.1 (so the Windows 8.1 OS would recognize the Windows 7 OS?). Does that make sense? Do any of you do stupid stuff like that? Having nothing to do on vacation but screw around with company property? Call me "Incompetent Geek" because I act on impulse without fully knowing what I'm doing. Taking unnecessary risks that create crises that take time out of my day to recover. I hope nobody at work recognizes this post. So, I'm here learning about recovering a lost partition, and for the Ghost software so I can make a true backup. Because, even though I am a 20-YEAR-IT-VETERAN, I do stupid stuff like blowing up hard drives all the time. While at work, I learned how to use DiskPart to make a drive [U][I][B]"unbootable"[/B][/I][/U]. I hid in the cafeteria with a backup disk and a USB drive with boot information from a teammate's PC to recover the disk drive. I left early that day. At home, I repaired the boot sector with the Windows 7 installation disk. Another teammate still harps about killing his PC 10-years ago (the PC was in intensive care). I tried to flash the bios on battery power [the power adapter did not work]. It was a race between the battery and BIOS. The battery won. He took the limp PC to the Geek Squad. "No", they said, "whoever did this to your PC ought to be in jail." They did not even try to fix it. The true IT geeks don't trust me. Do you blame them?. How do I live with myself? How in the world do I still have a job in IT? Partly, I think, because of network resources such as Malware Tips who help people like me recover from stupidity, and hopefully before anybody at work finds out. I am thankful for this resource and the Ghost Software. [/QUOTE]

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