So, my nice relaxing night last night turned into a night from hell.
It started out okay. I played Guitar Hero for about an hour, ate some dinner, then decided to go upstairs to play on my computer for a bit. Here's where the hell starts.
I've been having some problems with my computer lately. Mostly, some popups keep popping up on it saying that I have executed an illegal action (hey, I don't even look at porn). And it won't go away! It just keeps popping up ever 3 seconds or so - extremely annoying. And I can't get it to go away. After about a week of this I decided I've had enough. I have a second blank drive attached to it because we all know that the OS needs to be reloaded from time to time. So, I carefully remove the drive with all my shit on it to make sure I don't accidentally overwrite the data drive and reload the OS on the new drive. Everything was fine and dandy. Once the reload was complete I reattach the old drive. It saw it just fine, everything was cool. Until I start to copy a few things from the old drive to the new drive. About 1/2 way through the copy process I get an error message that some files couldn't be read.
I freak out. I'm just yelling NO!!! at the top of my lungs because I know that I've just lost 10 years worth of photos, music, Word files, Excel files, any artwork I've done, my entire life down the tubes. I panic. But, I know that I haven't exhausted every available attempt to see if I can salvage anything at all.
Next, I open My Computer to see what's going on and it doesn't even see the old drive anymore. I reboot. Same thing. So, I remove the new drive so just the old drive is on it to see if it'll still boot from it. Nope. Stupid computer says that it encountered a read write error. Fuck!
Finally, I get the computer to see it again, but I lost most of my data on the drive. Lucily, the All Documents folder was saved so I didn't lose all my pictures and stuff. But, I did lose a lot of stuff I really needed. I lost all my music in my Zen directory - no big thing because it's all still on the Zen. I haven't fully realized yet what I've lost and what I've retained. Which is kind of scary! But, I got back all of my photos and files, I think. Not entirely sure yet.
I seriously need a new computer. Mine is about 4 and a half years old now and is just getting beat up. But, right now, I can't afford a new computer - but when I can I think I'm going to get a notebook. That way I can take it with me. The only downside to getting a new computer is that they all load Vista on it - which sucks!
Oh well. I guess I deserve it since I never do a backup. Who has time for that shit anyway?
So, I'm done bitching about that.
I'm still waiting for the day that I get into work, sit down to write my blog for the day, and find out that they've finally blocked blogger. I know it's coming. They've recently blocked photobucket and a few other image hosting sites.
So, if you don't see me again I didn't die. I've just been blocked.
Can you install XP Pro on a computer that has Vista installed on it? If so, I do have an XP Pro CD you can use in case you need it if/when you get a new PC.
I hope you can recover most of your stuff. That really sucks!
Can you install XP Pro on a computer that has Vista installed on it? If so, I do have an XP Pro CD you can use in case you need it if/when you get a new PC.
I hope you can recover most of your stuff. That really sucks!