Computer troubles: since I know you're all desperate to hear.

[icarus]

With hopes and best wishes, my beloved laptop was sent off to be repaired. Wobbling sound? CPU fan, check. Run a diagnostic? Check.

They called over the weekend with good news: the CPU fan was fixed just by blowing it out with compressed air. (Icarus glances over at one very smug, very large, very furry kitty.) They found a death-Trojan lurking and updated my virus protection... and all was well.

With flowers and rejoicing, my laptop returned home.

Alas. The reunion was brief. The laptop announced that its "registry was corrupted" (serves me right for letting it out of my sight in poor company) then insisted I restart. The restart left me staring at a dark screen with the bad news my hard drive was an "invalid disk."

I tried set-up, to no avail. I tried my boot disk. It did nothing.

Wailing and tearing my hair, I called the repairman. He thought it might be a hard drive problem.

"But, kind sir," I said, "would that not have been discovered during the diagnostic?"

"Er...."

Yes, it seemeth the diagnostic was never run once the wobbling CPU was so easily dispatched.

Forlorn, I am once again without my beloved laptop... computerless.

Comments

[dryad-duinath.livejournal.com]

... I am firmly convinced that computer-repairmen have no brains.

...

plus they overcharge.

*consoles*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I want to curl up on my couch and write. This sucks. I have a story deadline. I have homework to do. I'm hungry and I don't have wildernessguru to serve me. *sighs*

How the hell am I gonna do this without my home computer?

Icarus

[dryad-duinath.livejournal.com]

... I have absolutely no idea. When my laptop was broken I stole Ts computer. And before I managed to do that I was huddled in my bed.

I guess it might be possible to write with a pad of paper or somesuch. or not. Doesn't wildernessguru have a comp that you can borrow for your nefarious purposes?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No, wildernessguru and I live together. We have only one car and one computer between us. The car's his (mine died three years ago) and the computer's mine. But the line is rather blurry.

Icarus

[jaig.livejournal.com]

I was all FLOWERS AND CELEBRATION already too. :/

What now, a new computer?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

A new computer requires money. *Icarus empties pockets: one lintball, several pens, a Canadian quarter... hmmm.* Nope. That doesn't look like an option.

Actually, if he can't fix it, we're going to try replacing the hard drive.

While also requires money. Hmmmm.

Icarus

[jaig.livejournal.com]

A quarter.

...

Can you pawn that lint?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Aw, this sucks. I never can cope with registry problems, I don't even know where the registry is in all the damn software. Like I said before, you have my entire sympathy.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Someone once tried to tell me how to do it, but warned me how easy it was to screw up. *yiaiaiiyiyiyiyi*

The real problem is that "invalid disk" error. It's saying that my hard drive is fucked, or at least the sector where the start up .bat files are located.

Icarus

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Damn. I'm beginning to wonder... how much might it cost to Federal-Express you an old Compaq from Britain to Washington State?

[tigerlilly2063.livejournal.com]

Somehow this sounds familiar to me.

I helped my dad last year to buy a new computer for my mother (since he's absolutely NOT into that stuff) while we were there for holidays. I also installed everything but there the problems began and somehow it seemed to me like the harddrive had a defect. Unfortunately we had to drive home again after the weekend so my mother had to go to the store alone. But I told her everything what she had to say.
These idiots changed the CD-drive and it was nothing better after that.
After some attempts we got everything installed but after a few weeks the PC crashed completely. Again to the store... And what was it? The harddrive.

I can just say - these people are sometimes complete idiots!

Hope you get your laptop and especially your data back soon.