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everything is fine and then suddenly it all goes sluggish
i think it has something to so with firefox
I had a second hard drive that I used to store things like my entire portfolio of design work from college on. My thinking was thus: If there's going to be a disastrous, system-killing error, it's going to happen on the drive with Windows installed. Therefore the spare should be much safer.
Well as I'm re-connecting the drive one day, after receiving my computer back from being repaired (unrelated issue) I noticed the plug for the drive wasn't fitting too well. I shoved it as tightly as I could and turned on the PC to see if it worked. This was a really stupid idea. The drive would not be read. I rebooted several times and tried reconnecting the drive several more times. Eventually I got fed up and ripped the still-spinning drive out of the machine as if it were the beating heart of my enemy. I felt the drive wirr to a stop in my hand. That was when I noted that one of the pins that connected the HDD to the ribbon was bent, hence my problem connecting (I had shorted the drive out completely). Ripping the running drive out just made it even worse. When I handed the still-warm corpse of a hard disk over to the techs that were going to send it to data-recovery they warned me there were no guarantees and that the cost was non-refundable.
All in all it cost me $2,000.
Almost nothing useful was saved.
You know what did make it through? All of my movies (including some porn) and photos. A tiny fraction of the original portfolio was able to be salvaged.
$2,000 was more than I'd payed for the entire computer system.
Now I have a USB backup drive and SATA Hard Disks.
wait shit I'm supposed to be talking about losing data.
er
thats halfway there
Thankfully, it was summer, so there were no irreplaceable essays or anything on my hard drive, but still, it was $200 I really didn't want to spend.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
by going to a community college for a couple years I could probably transfer into schools I wouldn't otherwise be able to get into, including awesome UCs that would give me a great education while saving my parents lots of money
but for some reason the thought of community college makes me cringe
The two nice parts of it are: They offer a program for music recording technology, and their music department in general is amazing. Annnnd I get to attend for free.
that more than anything else is what's motivating me to get this damn application done and sent in early decision so I can find out whether I got in
edit: and motivating me to go to bed so I can get up before 3 PM tomorrow and have time to work on it some more before I go out
The next day I wake up and I've got a SMART error up on my monitor.
I have yet to try and recover that disk.
Holy shit, trill
that's like that bit in 28 days later where a crow drops a bit of blood in that one dude's eye, and it totally fucks him up
except your computer didn't turn into a blood-thirsty zombie afterwards
Upon my birth the greatest scientists gathered and asked me questions.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question that no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face me. "Is there a God?"
I answered him without hesitation.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Then I played yakkity sax and re-arranged 98 solar systems in the image of goatse.
Trunk Club
I would watch a movie where this happened.
I recently found out my little sister got tubgirl'd over MySpace. I thought that was pretty funny.
Yeah, instead I got a fucking doorstop out of the deal.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Throw it at some old people in a park.
I didn't lose anything, although it fucked up my old emails.
Toward the end of it I had accumulated three SD cards full of pictures, which I eventually got around to transferring onto CDs. It's a simple process really: insert SD card, copy to hard drive, burn to disc, erase SD card.
Turns out I ended up copying one of the cards twice, and erasing the data from all of them. 1GB of pictures, gone.
>_<
Sure, we no longer have a phone line going into an internal modem in our PC (lol dial-up), but fuck me, that was nuts. I was sitting at the PC at the time, and sparks flew out of the damn thing a few inches from my leg.
damn brain spiders
Trunk Club
One we hammered the corner back into place and reseated the cards, it booted right up.
So last weekend I decide to clean up. I got my files in place, everything where I want it. Then I went through my installed programs and uninstalled SWAT 2. After a quick reboot, guess what! I have to call Microsoft and reactivate my XP because I uninstalled a fucking video game.
Kill someone
A couple years ago I had about half as much stuff written. I had about a 16 page timeline (much more brief) covering 700 years, and I'd actually begun writing the story proper without all the backstory in place. I was writing it backwards, from the finale. So I had like... 3 chapters finished. Then my HD went bad. 2 years of work on a story I'd guard as fiercly as my firstborn and it was gone, poof, in the blink of an instant. I didn't write again for like six months.
googledocs, dogg
can't lose your shit if its saved on the cloud
Steam
I'm assuming by in your box you mean in your pc, right?
Leaving data on HDDs and storing them away is a risky idea. I've heard of major recording studios that lost many a session because after months of sitting on a shelf, their hard drives had dried up and wouldn't spin.
Lesson learned, spin your hard drives regularly folks.
My laptop has out of the blue stopped allowing me to access a few seemingly random folders. These folders contain a bunch of digital pictures of sentimental importance, so I'd really like to get them back.
For most of the broken folders you can see them, but can't open them or access them with any programs. A few of the other folders will open, but none of the picture files within them are openable.
Any ideas what to do?
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Behold the annhilation of the extraterrestrial and the rise of the machines.
Hail Satan!
WISHLIST
Run a filesystem check, but don't get your hopes up too high.