Oh my God. OH MY GOD. You have my utter and total empathy. One of my computers once went on fire, another started to destroy the floppies on which I was saving work and THEN went bust... You have my sympathy. Wish I could do something for you, like lend you my old Compaq that's still working, but you are in one of those weird places on another continent...
I feel your pain. Last weekend my geek brother suggested fitting a second hard-drive "to minimise the risk if the old one crashes". Needless to say, once we installed the second drive, we discovered that the first one had corrupted while we were performing the surgery. Everything gone.
Mercifully, I had almost everything backed up. Lost all my e-mail, some pics, some fics, some music files. The important stuff was safe.
Just a thought, but had you considered investing in a USB key drive? They range from 62MB to 1GB in size and just plug into a USB port, with no extra software or anything. You can hang them on your keyring :-) The reason I saved so much was because I had all my own stories etc on a 512MB key drive.
Oh dear... You have my sympathy. I've been at that point one or two times, and loosing all once precious, precious data and bookmarks, together with comfortable internet access - bitter.
*hugs*, and I hope you'll have it fixed / a new computer up and running as soon as possible.
I second the suggestion of a USB keychain. They had them at Walmart the other night for $25-30 for a 128MB keychain drive. Much less expensive than an extra hard drive - and portable to boot. I've got to get one myself before my old 350mhz desktop keels over from old age.
Oh, hon, I so understand. I just got my laptop back today from having to send it back to Apple to have the hard drive replaced after it crashed last week. Lost everything that wasn't on my USB stick drive. Fics, chats, freelance projects, applications. :(
*hugs you hard*
I highly reccommend getting a stick drive. They're inexpensive compared to a external HD and do well with backing up text documents especially. You can get them up to 1 GB, I believe. Look around for a good price though...you can find them fairly cheap at times.
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And I shall take the advice offered in your email. It's all very helpful, thank you. :)
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Mercifully, I had almost everything backed up. Lost all my e-mail, some pics, some fics, some music files. The important stuff was safe.
Just a thought, but had you considered investing in a USB key drive? They range from 62MB to 1GB in size and just plug into a USB port, with no extra software or anything. You can hang them on your keyring :-) The reason I saved so much was because I had all my own stories etc on a 512MB key drive.
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*hugs*, and I hope you'll have it fixed / a new computer up and running as soon as possible.
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*hugs* computer problems suck!
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There is no pain like computer pain.
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*hugs you hard*
I highly reccommend getting a stick drive. They're inexpensive compared to a external HD and do well with backing up text documents especially. You can get them up to 1 GB, I believe. Look around for a good price though...you can find them fairly cheap at times.
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I lost every FRIGGING FILE.
EVEN MY NANO.
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Backup? :(
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