Thats a quote that my life resolves around alot. Last night I was working on my IT Coursework on Task 3 of the coursework booklet. The task is to create a quotation system in Microsoft Excel for a carpet company called DM carpets, after you have created the quotation system with all of the relative formulae and formulas you then have to screenshot each part of the quotation system and show evidence of how It works. I was doing this last night and managed to get 5 pages of explianation. After I finished I saved the document (As you do) but I'd sent the work home via a email attachment and realised I was editing the attachment document, I hadn't saved it to my computer it was just being opened off the attachment.

I'd already closed the window thinking that it had saved fine, but infact it hadn't saved at all, the temporary save file which Word creates when the document is open had disappeared so I had lost the changes I had made to my work. So my theory of "To have one things you must lose another" is half right so far. I have lost the additions I had made to this work document. But what did I gain out of it?

Because I was extremely annoyed that I'd just binned three pages of addition to the word document my fist hit the computer desk with some force to release some anger that I had. I must of slammed it down with some force because suddenly my computers disk drive light started blinking, and you might be thinking "Well so what?" Well whats weird about mysterious about that is the disk drive wasn't working until that moment. About a month ago a new power supply was fitted in my PC because I fried my other one when it came back from the shop I took it to, the disk drive didn't work, the tray didn't open and on start up the disk drive light didn't blink once. I assumed that the power supply might of damaged the disk drive or maybe a wire was loose inside, I hadn't really had time to check to be honest, but suddenly I see the disk drive blinking and cough into life. I was quite puzzled to see it blinking so I decided to press the open tray button and sure enough the disk drive opened!

Somehow me banging my fist on my desk did something to revive my disk drive, although my fist banging had only fixed part of the problem. Still amazed I decided to get my Windows XP disc and see if it would load it. Thats where I discovered that the disk drive wasn't reading the disc inside, but at that point you have to consider a piece of hardware suddenly working during a windows session, you'd defiantly need to restart your computer for the hardware to be recongized. What I did as well is enter my PC's BIOS and changed the first boot method as CD and then second boot as HDD, basically this means that if a system disc like the Windows XP disc in the CD drive during the PC power up you will be able to select to boot from the CD during start up. Sure enough the disk drive was reading the disc and blinking away.

I needed to check one more thing. When you logon and go to My Computer all the relative drives that are installed and working show up, previously my D:/ which is the disc drive wasn't appearing, but there it is now sitting there! I have got say a very weird computer experience! I have no idea how my fist banged on my computer desk caused my disc drive to work, but hey im not complaining! Well I was for about while as I had to re-write the work that I'd lost but It's just quite a mystery, and if any of you guys knows how to solve the mystery why not comment back because I don't know what I did thats for sure! But doesn't that prove my theory, "To have on thing you must lose another"?

I don't know, maybe I should start hitting things more to get them to work! Might have limit that to certain situtations though!