Upgrading my wife's PC = My wife ROCKS

Ok, that title may sound cryptic until you hear this story. First a little background. When I met my wife, I was instantly attracted to her because of her brain. She told me she is interested in sci-fi/fantasy books, likes computers and games, and had a job doing PC support stuff. So I'm telling myself...how can I ever expect to find another girl like this? I've got to snatch up this opportunity! Our courtship was actually a lot more complicated than that, but you guys probably don't care to hear all the extra details. :)

Also, Dyany is not really passionate about nerdy PC stuff. She mainly uses her PC for games and web surfing/email. She never reads technical mailing lists/forums, doesn't keep up with the latest trends, and doesn't even have an IT job anymore (but she had one for a few years, a few years ago). But, her brain retains information like a sponge, so every little IT fact she's ever learned is still in there, for the most part. I have tried to talk her into learning ColdFusion, but she's not interested. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

So anyway, last month my wife's PC hard drive was showing signs of imminent death. So we launched the process of getting a replacement and migrating all the data between hard drives. The reason I put "My wife ROCKS" in my post title is because of how this all went down.

First of all, she tells me she wants a 1 TB hard drive. Now that in itself is amazing. How many of your wives would even know what that means, let alone know that this is the amount of space she needs? I should note here that we use my wife's PC as our home "server", and we store all of our music, pictures, and videos on there, so that's why she asked for 1 TB.

So we buy the drive from newegg, and while it's in route my wife starts planning how we're going to migrate the data. Again, this fact alone is astounding compared to most other women out there. She knew that her old drive is SATA, and the new one we bought is SATA. So she asked me if we had an extra SATA cable. We did, but when the drive shows up I found out that her mobo only has one SATA port. So Dyany goes out and finds a free imaging utility and takes an image of the old hard drive (she stores it on a second hard drive in the machine). I swap out the drives for her (she's not a hardware person). Then she puts the image on the new hard drive. She even did some partition reorganization, with a little help from me.

So I ask you guys, how cool is my wife? :D

Comments
Haha.. Mine cannot even find the power button. Hats off to her! ;)
# Posted By Shane Zehnder | 1/19/09 7:56 AM
Unfortunately, my wife's technical skills have severely atrophied since I met her. When we first started dating, she was far above the curve in tech skills - home networking, hardware, software, backups, etc. However, 6 years later, she barely knows how to install and operate Roboform. She's taken the attitude that since she married an uber-geek, that I should handle every problem or issue that arises.
# Posted By Steve Brownlee | 1/19/09 8:37 AM
That's like awesome man, well done! She DOES ROCK! I hope she sees this blog post too!
# Posted By Austin | 1/19/09 8:38 AM
I doubt she'll see this post, she never reads my blog. :) But I did tell her about it just now, so she might go read it out of curiosity.
# Posted By Jake Munson | 1/19/09 8:40 AM
Similar story to Steve B. Severely atrophied. You'd never know she was a solaris syadmin in her past.
# Posted By Todd Rafferty | 1/19/09 10:06 AM
It's interesting that some women would do that, Steve and Todd. I suppose it's because they weren't really that interested in the first place (it was just a job), or their interests drastically changed?
# Posted By Jake Munson | 1/19/09 10:14 AM
No idea aside from her kids changing her focus. I just know I was really hoping we could be geeks together, but aside from her "ooooh shiny!" response at Best Buy, her nose in a book (kindle) or hanging out with her kids / playing the wii, etc.
# Posted By Todd Rafferty | 1/19/09 10:21 AM
She had the skills prior to knowing me out of necessity. She was the geek in the family. Now that I've usurped that role from her, she's moved on to other interests. Now her main interest is social networking. She's got a blog, is on twitter, goes to blogging conferences, and is very active in that realm, but for all the stuff behind the scenes, she doesn't want to be bothered. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard, "Just make it work."
# Posted By Steve Brownlee | 1/20/09 5:01 AM
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