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Anoel ([personal profile] anoel) wrote2007-03-18 07:07 pm
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Computer woes

So now my laptop has stopped working. According to the tech guys at my school, the hard drive is shot. Probably randomly. Great, just great. Not only do I have a ton to do this week, I don't have all my vids, vidding stuff, music and personal computer for internet usage. Already I can't even get Lum's vid to play :( I'm hoping I can recover the information because I stupidly don't have it backed up. The place where I bought it from is in NY so it'll probably take forever me to get it back. So I guess I'll be using the school library a lot. *sigh* This just sucks.

Some new Michael/Jan fic cheered me up and probably watching The Office will do the same but I can tell it'll be a long two weeks before the glorious month of April begins.
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-20 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I have most of my vids backed up on another computer, but not most of my SGA or SG-1 vids.

Actually when I think of the things I may have lost, those are the worse, but I also save my favourite fics, so I'll have lost a good deal of those. And some podfics, 1 of which I was making myself (oh god, like 100 hours down the drain!). I have most of my music on an external hard drive. Same with most of my source material. I'll have lost a few eps and movies, but nothing too huge.

Programs. That's another biggie. just getting Firefox set up on this computer is annoying. I had a lot of add ons installed (thank god a bookmark synchronizer was amoung them).

Also, things like tracking down the programs and their keygens can be a pain (I always seem to get virus' when looking for keygens).

It won't be the end of the world if I can't get my info back, I'll just be incredibly pissed.

Oh computers, how you suck, but make life so we can't live without you!
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
wow, getting posts mixed up :P This one is about *your* woes, not mine :P

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Really sorry about your troubles. The good news is that tech guys managed to get my stuff backed up (hopefully all of it, its processing now). So I hope the same can happen to you. And yeah, can't live without them.