Up and Down

So, as everyone reading this blog is aware, I posted another piece of Greenery Day last night. I was feeling darn good about that when I went to bed.

Then I get up this morning and boot up my computer. Or try to. It reported a disk error and failed to boot. And the same again, when I rebooted (hoping the previous error was a fluke). And another failure when I tried to reboot into recovery mode. As you might imagine I was feeling a bit queasy by then.

I've spent all day, outside of the time I was at the office, wrestling with it. On the plus side, it appears that only the partition containing the operating system was affected, and the data partitions are still clean. Which means, worst comes to worst, I can probably get by with a reformat, isolation of the bad clusters, and reinstallation of the OS. I'm hoping it won't come to that. At the moment it looks like I've repaired the partition, and the only corrupted files were ones I didn't care about (like obscure documentation, and icons for programs I've never used and don't intend to use). I'm keeping my fingers crossed though, to see what the coming days will bring.