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lady_t_220Fuck.
It's with a sickening sense of deja vu that I write this entry on once again a computer that isn't mine, in a room that is not my own.
*sighs*
It was all going so well... I had reordered my Hughfiles. Cropped away the deadwood. Got it all beautiful and neat and well-ordered but slow-as-all-hell cause my PC doesn't like subfolders.
So, ok, I'll reboot then I can burn new backup disks and all will be well with the world.
Only all is NOT well with the world, because as the devil sees fit to fart on my lingering sense of goodwill, the moment my computer tries to reboot the Hard Drive begins to make sicking chugging noises...
Sickening chugging noises that also indicate a failure to boot up windows. Sickening chugging, grinding, cracking noises that signal the death-throes of a hard drive in extreme torment.
And then it died.
Thankfully, only the boot-up sections on the C drive partition died (We've managed to rescue my documents, skins, downloads and other miscelaneous important things to JR's machine) but damnit...
This is the second time this has happened in 3 years, it's just plain fucking annoying.
So yeah... I'm on the PC in the study at the moment (thank goodness for excess terminals in this house) but as you can imagine, I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
JR's upstairs ordering a new HD but I really hate having to reinstall everyhting all over again. It blows monumentally, and as anyone who's done it can attest, it takes for fucking ever to re-set all your preferances. Hell, I don't even remember WHERE I set some of them.
Anyway, back to whining about this drive. The last time it died, it was out of the blue. Then last easter when KAT was here it did that freaking, unnatural clunking noise thing. 8 Bad Secors on C drive, but it was still working OK. I suppose I should have been expecting this, it's obviously just literally given up the ghost.
Just typically it HAD to do it right before I thought about backing-up...
I'm kind of surprised it's lasted this long really. I'd almost forgotten that it was bad-sector-heaven on the C drive. Lately though It has been making me paranoid.
Usually I get a dream that JR's taken it upon himself to format my Hard drive and delete everything on there right before the machine croaks.
Didn't get that this time, though JR also mentioned that the feeling of paranoia has been high and he'd been feeling like there was going to be trouble for the past week or so.
*sighs* Yeah... so there you go.
Man... the cursor on this PC moves really fucking slowly. I have to pause at the end of everything I type to wait for it to catch up with me. I know there's a way of changing the cursor speed but offhand I don't remember what the hell it is. I remember doing it on mine cause the blink-rate was too slow and it too forever to back-space.
*pokes around* I think I'll download YM onto this machine. Then at least I can still chat... Cause no one really bothers to use this machine much. Mum uses it to show studens how to use publisher or research things online but that's about it.
I miss my puter already. I feel lost and confused and have no concept of how I'll be spending the next 4 days...
I mean obviously apart from customising this PC to fill the void.
It's with a sickening sense of deja vu that I write this entry on once again a computer that isn't mine, in a room that is not my own.
*sighs*
It was all going so well... I had reordered my Hughfiles. Cropped away the deadwood. Got it all beautiful and neat and well-ordered but slow-as-all-hell cause my PC doesn't like subfolders.
So, ok, I'll reboot then I can burn new backup disks and all will be well with the world.
Only all is NOT well with the world, because as the devil sees fit to fart on my lingering sense of goodwill, the moment my computer tries to reboot the Hard Drive begins to make sicking chugging noises...
Sickening chugging noises that also indicate a failure to boot up windows. Sickening chugging, grinding, cracking noises that signal the death-throes of a hard drive in extreme torment.
And then it died.
Thankfully, only the boot-up sections on the C drive partition died (We've managed to rescue my documents, skins, downloads and other miscelaneous important things to JR's machine) but damnit...
This is the second time this has happened in 3 years, it's just plain fucking annoying.
So yeah... I'm on the PC in the study at the moment (thank goodness for excess terminals in this house) but as you can imagine, I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
JR's upstairs ordering a new HD but I really hate having to reinstall everyhting all over again. It blows monumentally, and as anyone who's done it can attest, it takes for fucking ever to re-set all your preferances. Hell, I don't even remember WHERE I set some of them.
Anyway, back to whining about this drive. The last time it died, it was out of the blue. Then last easter when KAT was here it did that freaking, unnatural clunking noise thing. 8 Bad Secors on C drive, but it was still working OK. I suppose I should have been expecting this, it's obviously just literally given up the ghost.
Just typically it HAD to do it right before I thought about backing-up...
I'm kind of surprised it's lasted this long really. I'd almost forgotten that it was bad-sector-heaven on the C drive. Lately though It has been making me paranoid.
Usually I get a dream that JR's taken it upon himself to format my Hard drive and delete everything on there right before the machine croaks.
Didn't get that this time, though JR also mentioned that the feeling of paranoia has been high and he'd been feeling like there was going to be trouble for the past week or so.
*sighs* Yeah... so there you go.
Man... the cursor on this PC moves really fucking slowly. I have to pause at the end of everything I type to wait for it to catch up with me. I know there's a way of changing the cursor speed but offhand I don't remember what the hell it is. I remember doing it on mine cause the blink-rate was too slow and it too forever to back-space.
*pokes around* I think I'll download YM onto this machine. Then at least I can still chat... Cause no one really bothers to use this machine much. Mum uses it to show studens how to use publisher or research things online but that's about it.
I miss my puter already. I feel lost and confused and have no concept of how I'll be spending the next 4 days...
I mean obviously apart from customising this PC to fill the void.
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Date: 2003-02-22 12:12 pm (UTC)How did you rescue some of the stuff on your HD though? My desktop's in the same state, so anything I could get off onto the good drive is a plus.
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Date: 2003-02-22 12:29 pm (UTC)Though obviously as it was connected as a slave it didn't NEED to boot. So we copied and pasted all relevant files onto JR's PC.
We even managed to rescue my fonts though we had to do that through DOS... cause windows only recognises 1 font file even if there are 2 on 2 seperate hard drives. DOS can actually tell them apart so we copied and pasred the contents into a differently named folder.
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Date: 2003-02-22 02:52 pm (UTC)I feel your pain, babe.
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Date: 2003-02-23 01:42 am (UTC)Also it's really boring in my room now with no PC to play on...