Well, I managed to do it without any help from Staples, but I restored my computer without any bootable media. I never thought it was a good idea for Sony to ask you to create the bootable DVDs, but I guess it’s my fault for not doing it. Now I can’t get onto the restore partition either. I could read the file table from Knoppix, but I couldn’t read the actual files. All I could do was re-build from scratch. Which means most of my files are gone. That includes some of the files on my site.
The one thing that I regret the most about this is not having my iTunes anymore. I HAD a backup of it on my external hard drive, but that got messed up during the backup. I’d like to say the irony was not lost on me, but, ironically, it was in digital format, and lost as well.
Yes, my humor’s lame. Sue me.