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Why I am unhappy today
Jun. 4th, 2002 02:22 amThis morning at 6:17am I remember being woken up by the click-clack click-clack of the unhappiness of my hard drive or something. Turned off the computer to make it stop; went back to sleep.
At 10:30am I woke up for real and tried to reboot the thing. It booted but was slow as shit. Tried powercycling; now it wouldn't boot at all and complained about a corrupted kernel file.
Inbetween showering and changing and all I attempted twice to reinstall Windows 2000 on it... which only succeeded in creating additional installations which couldn't access my data.
Actually, inbetween trying to install, I drove to campus, had lunch outside with Christina, Kevin M, Nick, and Drew. Talked about movies a whole lot and ended up not going to Eli's practice talk but rather coming back here to play some DDR and watch Singin' in the Rain off and on with Nick and Christina. I felt bad for Eli, but I'd have just been sitting in the talk thinking "aaaack! my poor computer is dead!" Nick told me it's probably the hard drive, which makes me sad sad sad. I haven't backed it up since, oh, October or so.
Around 5ish I called HP to tell them what was up. They said "Oh, you installed a new OS? You've pretty much voided the warranty then... hmm... oh a dead hard drive, that sucks, you can take it to one of our service providers in the area and they'll look at it and probably just give you a new empty one." So that still doesn't solve my problem of trying to get the data off my old drive.
I think tomorrow I will go buy a new hard drive and try to use it to see if I can access my data... and then if I still can't, I guess I'll cry, and then move on. Blah.
I made Eli hug me for a while because I was pretty depressed over the whole computer thing, plus I still have a stuffy nose, and I just feel sort of blah. After that I drove to Boston Market and got dinner food, which I took to Mike's house for D&D. I guess D&D worked out well... we managed to not die, and we even accomplished our goal of releasing all the trapped souls from the evil fortress on the astral plane, so that was good.
The other unhappy thing was that when I drove to Mike's and parked on the right side of the street I think I hit the curb with the right front tire, and since Cedar Point I am way paranoid about that sort of thing. I was able to move the car up more, and I drove home okay, and the tire doesn't *seem* to be flat, but how would I be able to tell if it was losing air until it actually goes flat? I guess I'll check it out tomorrow before I go harddrive-and-camping-supply shopping.
Blah, I say. Blah.
At 10:30am I woke up for real and tried to reboot the thing. It booted but was slow as shit. Tried powercycling; now it wouldn't boot at all and complained about a corrupted kernel file.
Inbetween showering and changing and all I attempted twice to reinstall Windows 2000 on it... which only succeeded in creating additional installations which couldn't access my data.
Actually, inbetween trying to install, I drove to campus, had lunch outside with Christina, Kevin M, Nick, and Drew. Talked about movies a whole lot and ended up not going to Eli's practice talk but rather coming back here to play some DDR and watch Singin' in the Rain off and on with Nick and Christina. I felt bad for Eli, but I'd have just been sitting in the talk thinking "aaaack! my poor computer is dead!" Nick told me it's probably the hard drive, which makes me sad sad sad. I haven't backed it up since, oh, October or so.
Around 5ish I called HP to tell them what was up. They said "Oh, you installed a new OS? You've pretty much voided the warranty then... hmm... oh a dead hard drive, that sucks, you can take it to one of our service providers in the area and they'll look at it and probably just give you a new empty one." So that still doesn't solve my problem of trying to get the data off my old drive.
I think tomorrow I will go buy a new hard drive and try to use it to see if I can access my data... and then if I still can't, I guess I'll cry, and then move on. Blah.
I made Eli hug me for a while because I was pretty depressed over the whole computer thing, plus I still have a stuffy nose, and I just feel sort of blah. After that I drove to Boston Market and got dinner food, which I took to Mike's house for D&D. I guess D&D worked out well... we managed to not die, and we even accomplished our goal of releasing all the trapped souls from the evil fortress on the astral plane, so that was good.
The other unhappy thing was that when I drove to Mike's and parked on the right side of the street I think I hit the curb with the right front tire, and since Cedar Point I am way paranoid about that sort of thing. I was able to move the car up more, and I drove home okay, and the tire doesn't *seem* to be flat, but how would I be able to tell if it was losing air until it actually goes flat? I guess I'll check it out tomorrow before I go harddrive-and-camping-supply shopping.
Blah, I say. Blah.
