My hard drive says Klunk.
I say uh-oh.
My friend Todd says Hard Drive needs to be replaced.
My friend Todd is wise. He married my friend Tara. He is a very wise man because she is very cool.
Long story short, yesterday afternoon I drove into Calgary, had Todd have a look at it, and found out that it was ‘just’ the hard drive and not the main board as well.
I have nothing. It is all gone. I have to start from scratch. This is a lovely parallel to my life, as I had to start my entire LIFE from scratch in May, and it cost considerably more than $200.00. Todd figures that if he slaves the old disk, and it doesn’t have an OS on it, that he may be able to retrieve the info on the drive. That would kick major ass.
Yup, so, I have NO email addresses anymore. My .wab file is on the old hard disk. Gone. I do realize the value of backups, I really do. Some things I have backed up, others I do not. I have had a Very Bad Day, and it’s only gonna get better. Out of this crud, I’m getting a bigger and better hard drive, newer OS, better whiz-bang software, and I’m thinking I’ll put in a DVD drive.
It’s gotta get better, right? First screwed over, then surgery, now this. That’s my three Bad Things[sup]TM[/sup] and I shall not accept anything further. Like the monk in “Erik the Viking”, I refuse to see bad things from now on. I shall be Oblivious Girl. Maybe I should change my name.
Ouch. Once I had to reformat my whole hard drive, but fortunately I was able to recover most of my important files and such.
But as you say, this only means time for an upgrade!
The idea of ignoring any other bad things sounds good (what bad things???). You might like to try (jeez I wish I could remember exactly what this is) those sunglasses from the Hitchhiker’s Guide series which automatically darken when anything at all stressful comes by. The more stressful the darker they get, so you never even see the really bad stuff. They may be just the ticket for you.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
Well, Ginger, this happened just in time, since I’ve just changed my email add’y and now you can simply use the new one without all that confusing changing of things and stuff. See, it all works out.
Bummer about the drive though. I think I’m going to burn a disk this afternoon…
I upgraded from a PII233 to a PIII-600, uped the ram to 384, ditched my 6G and tossed in a 30G hard drive and I only have a 250w supply on board. [sub](I also have a DVD player, a second hard drive, a fan for the CPU, and a Voodoo5-5500 which draws power directly from the power supply)[/sub]
Last night I was having major headaches, but got it all sorted out. But I still need to get a 350w Power supply.
Do a data transplant like i did when my HDD went clunk badly it will last a fair bit yet , but change all the file names to 8 charactors and then put in a slave from the cable from the back of your CDROM drive and copy the drive (in DOS) over in small pieces about 10mb chunks anymore and i found the heads hit the HDD surface then put the spare HDD in as the master , oh and install an OS on it first helps no end unless you are using a partition.
if you just want to find data on files in a semi text format go to DOS and find the file and open it up in EDIT
and you might have some luck.
Thanks Mr. Cynical, did you know that off the top of your head, do you have the source nearby, or did you find it on the web? I tried to find it online for a while and gave up.
Ginger, will you marry me? (just throwing something wonderful into your day, although after admitting to having spent a half an hour searching the web for Hitchhikers’ Guide fan sites, it may not seem such a wonderful thing… but I do cook!).
