Computer crisis
12:34 pm Wed, 25th August 2004I spent most of yesterday biting my nails and nearly having a nervous breakdown because my computer died when I got into work that morning. My attempts at starting up windows merely resulted in the dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death). So my pc was hauled up to engineering, where they spent half the day trying to reinstall windows and get it to boot up. No dice though, as I got a call in the afternoon stating that my hard drive was probably gone. Noooo…. all my un-backed-up work (yes yes, I know, I broke the cardinal IT rule – Back Up Your Files)…. but even worse, all my personal files and mp3s!!! Argh!!! 🙁
However, as the story unfolds, all is not as it seems, and there is still hope! I suggest to the engineer that I would really like to recover at least my work and personal files, so would it be possible to just plug my hd into another computer as a slave drive, and copy the essential files off. Sounds like an idea, and he says he’ll scrounge around for a computer. I let him know the directories to be copied and ask if I can come up to oversee this process.
So I get in this morning and he’s emailed me saying this is possible and he’s copied across those directories already. So I go upstairs, transfer a few extra files off and YAY!! All is well!! 😀 (He did however notice the size of my personal folder.. *cough*.. but didn’t say anything else about it.) He says they’ll be ordering me a new HD from Dell (even though my HD might still work if they format it… I’m probably safer with a new one, and he might just “accidently” drop my hd in the meantime… hahah).
So, thats my adventure for the last 26 hours. *phew* And I swear as soon as I get my computer back (after reinstalling all my programs… grrrr…) I will back-up all my important data. I might even burn the crucial ones to CD to be 100% safe. 🙂
So here I am now, using my work mate’s (who is on leave) computer temporarily, until I get my computer back, probably next Monday sometime. I’m glad Web ICQ still works. 🙂
Current listening :: “The Hook Up” – Britney Spears
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4 Comments on “Computer crisis”
nate
Aug 25, 2004
you’re very lucky! I have no sympathy for people who don’t back up and lose their stuff…creates so much extra work for me when their HDD goes bye bye…
Kazzart
Aug 25, 2004
Well, yeh I suppose thats coz ur pretty much a one man show, whereas we have a dept full of em. 🙂
And yeh, its different for developers than for ur average business/accounting ppl. Because our development environments are so integrated with our machines, and we’re bound to not be able to back up some of the stuff. Which reminds me.. now that I think about it, I think I’ve may have missed out on a few .NET files to copy over..
blue
Aug 27, 2004
wow, i’m glad all your files are safe and sound. the engineer sure seems like a nice guy. 😉
the same thing happened with me before, and all those cds after cds i’ve ripped onto my computer were all gone, vanished. not to mention all the time i’ve wasted sitting in front of the computer ripping those. sign. but you know, sometimes we never learn. =P
Kazzart
Aug 30, 2004
Hehe.. yes.. I know exactly what you mean. All that time I spent ripping my cds and renaming the files so they’re all follow my naming convention..!