2007/10/28 16:14
Floppy Drive
I have good news and I have bad news.
The bad news is that my hard drive bit the dust. I turned off the computer yesterday because it was running choppily, and when I turned it on again it notified me of an "unmountable boot drive." Well, I don't know what that means -- I didn't even think computers had feet. So I called my brother the tech support guru, and after putting me through the paces we learned that the one part of the whole hard drive that was absolutely necessary -- the "boot sector" -- had gone kaput. Computers -- just like women, they're obsessed with shoes to the point of critical failure.
The good news is that as a tech support guru, he has connections. This means that a new hard drive is on its way to me at no charge -- or will be shortly, anyway. Then he'll be able to talk me through setting it up and recovering the data from my current hard drive, as long as it wasn't some freak spike that fried the whole machine.
The bad news is until it arrives, I don't have a computer, unless you count the ten-year-old laptop in the closet. Which I could use, theoretically, except that it's suffering from some kind of advanced computer Alzheimer's disease. Like sometimes it forgets it has a network card or a mouse or a monitor.
The good news is my library has computers available at no charge, as long as you're willing to overlook the fact that you have to backspace every third word to correct overtyping with these arthritic keyboards.
The bad news is they aren't open at 11:30 at night when I want to look at porn.
The good news is I just renewed my subscription to National Geographic.
I'll be back in a week or so. EDIT: The good news is I got said ten-year-old laptop working, much to my surprise. The bad news is it's still ten years old. So I may be around, in fits and starts.
The bad news is that my hard drive bit the dust. I turned off the computer yesterday because it was running choppily, and when I turned it on again it notified me of an "unmountable boot drive." Well, I don't know what that means -- I didn't even think computers had feet. So I called my brother the tech support guru, and after putting me through the paces we learned that the one part of the whole hard drive that was absolutely necessary -- the "boot sector" -- had gone kaput. Computers -- just like women, they're obsessed with shoes to the point of critical failure.
The good news is that as a tech support guru, he has connections. This means that a new hard drive is on its way to me at no charge -- or will be shortly, anyway. Then he'll be able to talk me through setting it up and recovering the data from my current hard drive, as long as it wasn't some freak spike that fried the whole machine.
The bad news is until it arrives, I don't have a computer, unless you count the ten-year-old laptop in the closet. Which I could use, theoretically, except that it's suffering from some kind of advanced computer Alzheimer's disease. Like sometimes it forgets it has a network card or a mouse or a monitor.
The good news is my library has computers available at no charge, as long as you're willing to overlook the fact that you have to backspace every third word to correct overtyping with these arthritic keyboards.
The bad news is they aren't open at 11:30 at night when I want to look at porn.
The good news is I just renewed my subscription to National Geographic.
comment bomb!
UGH. you KNOW i feel you on the computer trouble... so i'll just look forward to hearing from you when you get back!
UGH. you KNOW i feel you on the computer trouble... so i'll just look forward to hearing from you when you get back!
Too bad you didn't have a flip-flop go bad. That would have been rofl funny.
# posted by 
: 10/29/2007 5:33 PM
: 10/29/2007 5:33 PM
I feel your pain. I have several computers die on me for one reason or another. It's very unsettling.
I'm glad that my old computer sitting on the living room floor made it through the nearly 10 years I had it without such critical failures. I made it halfway through college with it and I probably would've dropped a brick if the boot sector had fried on me. I think I'm more afraid of this 6 month old computer going kablooey than the old one now that I think about it.
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