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On about my 3rd contract, straight out of Uni, I got a gig as a support monkey working for a 3rd part company on a site in london (standard charter). I was asked to upgrade DOS on a PC from 3.2 to 5 - tells you how long ago this was. I started the installation and it promted me to say that there was a 32mb partition on the 40mb disk and that version 5 could utilise the full 40mb. Did I want to move the partition? Figuring it would warn me if it was about to do something bad I figured I'd give it a go. Next thing the HD springs into life and up pops formatting 1%, 2% etc. I had to then tell my boss what I had done, where I was taken off site. The PC I was 'upgrading' belonged to the IT director. I was like an excocet missile heading in there and lasted a total of 3 hours.
But I bet it still pisses you off now ehn it contatnly asks "are you sure you want to exit/delete/format"
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