The last two days at work have been pretty boring. I just couldn't quite get into the swing of things after Finals. Today kind of eased that transition by abruptly knocking me into whatever mode I was in during the summer.
I came in an hour later than usual, due to a rapid and highly planned covert operation that consisted of me whacking the alarm clock a couple of times and thus setting my alarm for an hour later when it first went off this morning. Apparently my arm knew more about what was gonig to happen today than I did, because hindsight indicates that this was an unusually intelligent decision on the part of my (sleeping) arm.
Anyway, when I came in, the IT Director and Network Admin are sitting in the server room (within which my "office" resides), staring at the console. This is A Bad Sign. "SRVR8 went down." The console displayed the reimaging tool off the restore cd's for that Gateway 860 NAS box.
It was at this point that I got knocked back into IT Pro mode instead of disaffected CS college student.
Apparently the box locked up between 11:48 PM and ~12:15 AM last night. The IT Director arrives here first, and noticed that the drive mappings onto the server weren't working. Since the system was locked, he powercycled it. When it came back up, the OS couldn't be found and of course wouldn't boot. And so the Network Admin was called in.
The Network Admin couldn't get the NAS box to boot off of what he thought were Windows Server 2003 and Recovery Tool discs, so he apparently fell back on the restore CD approach. It was shortly after that that I showed up.
The good news is that the OS reinstall worked well. The system was back online by 1 PM today. It was also surprisingly painless, with none of the data being damaged (nice 3 hour chkdsk there...) and all the settings other than static IP, domain membership, and shares being pushed down via GP.
On the brighter side of things, everyone got their bonus checks today. Now I can pay off a third of the taxes on my scholarships from last spring!