Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Friday morning after class, I prepared to take in the numerous records I had been keeping all year to finally get my taxes done. When I turned on my computer, an error message come up saying it could not find the hard drive. Now, I am not very good with hardware, but even I knew that that was not a good message. I took my computer in to a store and hoped for the best. I came back five hours later and they were only 25% into reading my hard drive to try to save my information. My computer had my tax information, digital pictures, music, and my homework. So after a long weekend without my computer, I went back to the store where I was told that they were unable to recover anything. It's all gone. GONE! Now I know what you are thinking. You are thinking "you should have backed up your hard drive." Believe me, I have been told that a million times. In my defense, I tried to back up my photos on Kodak Gallery, but there was an error in downloading the program. Plus, I was getting ready to back-up my taxes when my hard drive crashed. On the upside, I now have a good reason to get a new laptop (yes, I have a gadget addiction.) Until then I have had to make due and it has been rough. One nighgt, I used my sister's desktop with a dial-up connecction and another evening I spent at the public library. My favorite part of that experience was the women at the computer next to me who were looking up prison inmates so they could try to make a love connection. I am currently using my roommate's computer which seems to have a "y" key that is about to give out. (I had no idea I typed so many y's.) I asked the guy who worked on my laptop if there were any clues. He listed a few like running slow, problems opening files, etc. Every problem I had in class and trying to do our usaility testing. So I have learned that I need to get busy on ordering a new computer, get an external hard drive, and use more words that do not have y's.
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3 comments:
Ugh, that sucks!! I had that happen to me about 2 yrs ago. I lost all my senior year school work!! I was lucky though in that I was able to most of my pictures back. If they were digital pictures, you may be able to recover them from the memory card (which was how I got lucky!)
Oh no! I'm so sorry. I too have been having computer problems. My fan in my ancient laptop doesn't work well, so the whole thing overheats and shuts off at will without warning. I've been pretty good about saving everything after each two minute segment of work, but it is still annoying. I backed up really important stuff a while ago, but now after your story, I think I'll do a more comprehensive backup just in case it really is a more serious problem.
Yours is a cautionary tale for all of us, Jenny. I've been through the same thing and beaten myself up because I knew better and should have backed up more frequently. Aargh! Hang in there and go easy on yourself.
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