Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Nov. 18th, 2010 01:51 pmThis is a tale of woe and computers.
A couple of days ago, my laptop Nephry was acting up and freezing a few times. I went and ran malware scanners on safe mode. Didn't work. Hell, the next time I rebooted it, it didn't boot at all. Turns out, it didn't recognize the hard drive disk. Not the C: partition, the entire fucking HDD. Of course, there was no way to recover data with a Windows OR Linux live CD. It just didn't find a hard drive. Of course, there was no way to reformat that shit. What would it format, if there was no hard drive? Editing the BIOS settings was no good, because it still didn't see a fucking HDD. Google-fu was a failure.
So I sent it to the Toshiba authorized workshop today, after spending a nightmare morning over the phone (902 numbers, 902 numbers EVERYWHERE) yesterday. They called me a while ago to tell me the HDD is doomed and unrecognizable by anything and they'll have to put a new one.
...see, this is the part where I post a melodramatic gif, except my gif collection (and everything else EVER) is in my old hard drive. Yup, the one that died. Time to whine begins now *clears throat*
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Oh my God. Losing all that shiny stuff like my images (oh shit, the fanart and the gifs and the animal photos), my videos (oh shit, I had movies and TV seasons), my manga (oh shit, all that I ripped from OneManga before it died, plus my doujinshi), my icons (oh shit, most of the posts they came from I didn't memmed), my ebooks (oh shit, and I had just downloaded the coolest torrent of those), and so on. And yet, the worst part is definitely gonna be INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE ALL OVER AGAIN. It took me weeks to figure out struts and maven/jetty. Jesus Christ on a rollercoaster.
If I don't burn DVDs with my stuff or pass them to external storage (which I don't trust after the Western Digital drama on October 2008) once a month after this, I never will. Why am I so lazy, for fuck's sake.
A couple of days ago, my laptop Nephry was acting up and freezing a few times. I went and ran malware scanners on safe mode. Didn't work. Hell, the next time I rebooted it, it didn't boot at all. Turns out, it didn't recognize the hard drive disk. Not the C: partition, the entire fucking HDD. Of course, there was no way to recover data with a Windows OR Linux live CD. It just didn't find a hard drive. Of course, there was no way to reformat that shit. What would it format, if there was no hard drive? Editing the BIOS settings was no good, because it still didn't see a fucking HDD. Google-fu was a failure.
So I sent it to the Toshiba authorized workshop today, after spending a nightmare morning over the phone (902 numbers, 902 numbers EVERYWHERE) yesterday. They called me a while ago to tell me the HDD is doomed and unrecognizable by anything and they'll have to put a new one.
...see, this is the part where I post a melodramatic gif, except my gif collection (and everything else EVER) is in my old hard drive. Yup, the one that died. Time to whine begins now *clears throat*
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Oh my God. Losing all that shiny stuff like my images (oh shit, the fanart and the gifs and the animal photos), my videos (oh shit, I had movies and TV seasons), my manga (oh shit, all that I ripped from OneManga before it died, plus my doujinshi), my icons (oh shit, most of the posts they came from I didn't memmed), my ebooks (oh shit, and I had just downloaded the coolest torrent of those), and so on. And yet, the worst part is definitely gonna be INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE ALL OVER AGAIN. It took me weeks to figure out struts and maven/jetty. Jesus Christ on a rollercoaster.
If I don't burn DVDs with my stuff or pass them to external storage (which I don't trust after the Western Digital drama on October 2008) once a month after this, I never will. Why am I so lazy, for fuck's sake.
