November 17, 2008
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Stupid Hard Drives!
My laptop hard drive did a serious face-plant this weekend – and by that, I mean that when I went to use it Saturday morning, it was hard locked; alt-tab didn’t work to cycle through running programs, and ctrl-alt-delete didn’t work to shut it down. I had to turn that mother out! When I booted back up, I got a black screen (I’m much more familiar with the Blue Screen of Death, so was a bit surprised by this turn of events!). I rebooted again (using the power button AGAIN), this time opting to start WinHoes in safe mode. At that point, I didn’t get through all the system files before it locked up again. Craig pulled out the hard drive and hooked it up to his external drive cage to verify that it was, indeed, failing. He scrambled to copy my data, we got the kids ready, and headed to a tech geek’s wet dream, Micro Center. Seriously, that’s like pornography for us. Several new components later, my new, bigger hard drive has had my entire old drive copied to it, and it works like the old drive never even took a crap. No reloading WinHoes. No scrambling to install my FireFox plugins, and configure said plugins. Damn, he’s good. And yes, he is available for you
Also, we got a great new printer from my aunt, but it came with no power cords – we took the printer up to Micro Center with us, tried it out using a floor model’s power cords, and it works. We didn’t accomplish much else that we needed to do, and we were unable to make it to my best friend’s choral concert (don’t beat me up over this, I feel terrible already!), but we got something kind of important done.
Then we all went to bed.
Okay, well, first Craig and I had to watch Dexter and True Blood.
Comments (3)
that is awesome you have a man who can save the files for you like that.
when our computer got corrupted (wtf does that even mean?) i swore at it to make everything better but that didn’t pan out like i thought it would. so i swore louder, and then yelled at the kids and drank beer. still no.
@macgillicuddy -
He’s been saving my technical ass for 12 1/2 years now, but he’s learned how to fix things he wouldn’t have otherwise known how to fix, mostly because “if you know what’s good for you, you’ll fix it” always works.
Also, we once had a printer that was a total asshat of a printer. My actual job consisted of supporting asshat printers, but I COULD NOT for the life of me get my personal printer to quit being an asshat. So I blew it up with a pipe bomb, filmed it, kept a few pieces, and showed the film and the bits to the rest of my electronics. Things work a little better now.
YAY for Craig. BTW is his job ok? We heard something on the news about Sprint cutting employees.