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Never fails - I try to go to bed at 11:45, and everything is fine until 11:30, when suddenly stuff begins to fall apart, and I can't sleep till it's fixed and suddenly it's 1AM.

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I have got to get to bed, but my brain won't let me until this is fixed. Decided to go nuclear and just reinstall Linux Mint from scratch while hoping I can just swap one partition with another when its installed.

Maybe since this next step is going to take a few hours, my "YOU CAN'T SLEEP TILL EVERYTHING IS DONE" brain will allow me to sleep.

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I just gave up, nuked the drive, and reinstalled Linux Mint. First time Mint has dissapointed me. I just needed to recreate the EFI directory to get everything back, and on Arch, you just create the partition, run grub-install and you're good.

For some reason, I was just blocked by one thing or another that kept that from happening.

It was my boneheaded move that killed the drive, though, so no strike against Mint. Just very dissapointed.

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Oh my goodness I've hosed my Archive drive. Oh my goodness. Goodness.

This is gonna be a very long day.

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Learn from my lesson folks:
1) Make copious backups. Even with all my redundant backups, I've lost at least 22 days of data.
2) Don't stay up until 3AM trying to fix something, even when your brain won't let you sleep because you left something undone. Take some nockout drops or something.
3) Don't do any computer heavy lifting on three hours of sleep, lest you delete the wrong folder and wipe out your entire 15 year archive of data.

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Main computer is functional again. Now to get all the updates....

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Eh, I lost two hours of work in that reboot, but all my hardware is up and running now!

Back to the restoration, though....

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No Oldie but Moldie gaming tonight. Having to rebuild a very sick computer.

Hopefully she'll be functional enough come Sunday for Skyward Sword.

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Alright - the PC is as ready as it's going to be. Now it's just waiting to restore all that data. Gonna be a long trip.

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What Did We Learn On The Show Tonight, Jenn?

1) Remember where your EFI partition is.

2) Find a way to kill your brain when it nags you.

3) Don't do any in-depth detail work on three hours of sleep.

4) Don't train for your new job on three hours of sleep.

5) Don't use Windex on your scanner on three hours of sleep.

Speaking of which I SLEEP NOW.