The computer's back.
Feb. 6th, 2005 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusHi. I'm back, though I'll be off-line (except for stories) for the rest of this month - behind on a lot of computer-dependent homework, among other things.
We were very lucky. We lost a lot of data and the system is a wreck (i have visions of swabbing hurricane decks), but the hard drive survived. I was up all night cleaning up the mess, opening up randomly labeled ship-wrecked directories and squinting at incomprehensible lists of numbers that were once neatly labelled files.
You computer geeks will recognize the symptoms: yep. My file allocation table was over-written by Windows.
Welp - have to get back to mopping. *waves, shoulders virtual cleaning equipment and disappears, whistling.*
We were very lucky. We lost a lot of data and the system is a wreck (i have visions of swabbing hurricane decks), but the hard drive survived. I was up all night cleaning up the mess, opening up randomly labeled ship-wrecked directories and squinting at incomprehensible lists of numbers that were once neatly labelled files.
You computer geeks will recognize the symptoms: yep. My file allocation table was over-written by Windows.
Welp - have to get back to mopping. *waves, shoulders virtual cleaning equipment and disappears, whistling.*
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-07 05:33 am (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-07 05:34 am (UTC)It turns out the tech guy was wonderful. He fixed everything for thirty buck, and even located the serial number for Word so he could reload it.
Yay, Bruce.
Icarus
Welcome back!
Date: 2005-02-07 07:01 am (UTC)Wish I could just say "Hey! Got an extra mop? I'll help!" Oh well, I guess under the circumstances, it's the thought that counts, right? Good luck.