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PANIC! HELP! WHAT TO DO?! Wat zul ik nu doen? Interrobang!

Nov. 16th, 2007 at 10:47 AM

AAAAAAH! So a couple of days ago the computer went bye-bye. No signs of a painful struggle. Probably old age. That's what the doctor (or rather quack, seeing how it's Jens) says. I used it Sunday night and everything seemed fine and we were friends. I even patted it goodnight as I turned it off for the night. And that was the last time we spoke. I am glad we parted as friends. I mean, we've had our share of disagreements; mostly I yelled at it for being slow and old and sometimes out of the blue it would punish me by reacting too fast when I'm not expecting it. But those are trivialities and we'd soon get over it and be friends again.

Then on Monday morning it simply refused to wake up. I tried everything, but no, it was gone. I called the doctor (or rather quack, seeing how it's Jens), and he said, to let it go. It's gone and I must deal with it. The second I get healthy enough I'll ake it to the real hospital.

sjokoladepiken, do you have any suggestions?

R.I.P., Speedy.

So, now that's out of the way, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

I have no computer! And all my documents and projects! FUUUUUUUUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! Not to mention my entire life is there! I have all the movies I wanted to see finally downloaded after SO MUCH time given our internet. And Hanne's Christmas present! And I can't use her computer for that, seeing how it's HER Christmas present.

You know wat the worst part is? That on Sunday evening right beore I turned Speedy off I decided to get a memory stick, just in case, because I kneew Speedy was getting old. And so I made the decision to go buy one on MONDAY first thing after the doctor. ARGH! Irony!

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sortkatt wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 10:19 am (UTC)

I didn't say it was dead, I said it was very probably dead. I doubt we can save it, but that doesn't mean we can't try. Tell me when you have time, and I'll have a look.

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aj_stalin wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 10:31 am (UTC)

I'm free now, if cou like. I have plans for the evening/afernoon, but up to round about two thirty I'm free as a bird.

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sortkatt wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 10:32 am (UTC)

Ahh. It's the other way around for me. Tomorrow morning?

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aj_stalin wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 10:38 am (UTC)

I have plans the entire day. Let me get back to you.

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vague_intention wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 10:15 pm (UTC)

Even if it's dead, it's highly unlikely that it's a hard drive issue (if it's not turning on: if something was wrong with the hard drive it'd turn on, then give you a bunch of bullshit.)

Put the hard drive from the dead computer into your new computer (or, uh, ask someone who knows how to do that to do it for you) and you should be able to recover all of your data. Don't run any executable files though, in case it was a virus that disabled your system.

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sortkatt wrote:

Nov. 17th, 2007 03:20 pm (UTC)

From what I (the quack) was told, it gave an error about the boot sector being unreadable or unaccessible. It's a laptop, so switching out HDs is a bit harder than usual. Also because it's a laptop, harddrive issues is a bit more likely seeing as they usually have to take more of a beating and shaking while the drive is spinning.

If we're really lucky, though, it's something as relatively benign as a virus, and a new installation and a thorough sweep might restore both the lost data and the hardware. It's been a while, however, since I've seen viruses capable of fucking with the bootsector in this way, so I thought the hardware fault more likely.

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