Fake’s Tank

When installing Windows on my iMac using BootCamp, I deleted my whole Mac hard drive ending up with XP taking up 100% of my computer.

I had the preconceived notion that BootCamp doesn’t spoof Microsoft’s installer into thinking there is only one hard-drive of the manually allocated space, nor does BootCamp somehow manages to protect OSX’s files using special user file rights. Windows Setup found 3 partitions (wtf?) that I went on deleting carelessly. This is really my fault in a obvious lack of attention to what I was doing.

Fortunately, I’m the happy owner of Time Capsule and Leopard so my whole Mac was backed up to the minute. Thing is, in all the excitement that comes with mistakingly wiping off your drive, I had forgot I could use that backup.

In a nice implementation of their solution, Apple noticed I had a Time Capsule running during Leopard’s installation process and asked me to use the backup it had found. Things went very smoothly afterwards. After a long wait, all my stuff was back where it had been before my mistake. I had to change the file system from NTFS to whatever Mac uses previously though.

Apart for it not working wirelessly with my Xbox 360 (which in the end is Microsoft’s fault) and sometimes having connection hiccups I really only have good words for my Time Capsule.