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taotrooper) wrote2010-11-18 01:51 pm
taotrooper) wrote2010-11-18 01:51 pm
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This 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.
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(I remember the last time I lost my whole computer - I had the first draft of a novel and like 20 short stories and a couple of screenplays -plus tons of fanfic- that I had written and now are lost forever. Sometimes I have nightmares about those stories. It makes feel really shitty. Now at least I remember to back up all my writing once a week.)
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That's what I do now, basically. On top of that I copy the documents to external HDD just to be sure. At least I learned my lesson.
I find that tiny USB drives are slightly more trustworthy as storage devices.
I think you are right.
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Si quieres, puede ser annoying y recordarte quemar cosas de cuando en cuando ;;
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It should have gotten rid of BEN, too, if you downloaded that particular file, so think of that as another bonus.I'm really sorry about everything else that you lost, though. If you want, I can look through what I have and see if it matches up with any of your old files.no subject
I had deleted my internet temp files long ago, but you never know.Thanks you so much, but I don't have a list of what I lost so I have no idea of where you could help me out. The things I can think of on the top of my head must still be in comms or torrents, I hope. I am a bit worried about dead torrents or broken DDL files, but I'll groan when the time comes.no subject
BEEN THERE DONE THAT HATED IT
I am so sorry, bro. ಥ_ಥ
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