It's only been a week but it's felt like a year.
Last week the hard drive on my aged laptop suffered a catastrophic failure. Died. Kaput. While I do back up to an external drive it may have been a while since I did that. Oh dear.
So I have spent a week completely away from the cyber world. It was sort of weird. I used the paper version of the yellow pages a lot, I RANG people, I talked to people FACE TO FACE, on purpose. Actually, it was quite refreshing. I even bought a computer the old fashioned way.
I had been putting off buying a new computer because I just couldn't be bothered with all the research. Yet faced with an urgent need it was surprisingly easy. I rang Dell, ordered a box.with.the.lot on Friday afternoon and it was built in the US and delivered to my door this morning. Voila. All done.
If only I had done this a week earlier and I wouldn't be faced with the loss of my entire contact database and three months worth of photos.
11 comments:
Thank goodness! I thought you'd died! I was wondering where to send flowers....
Actually, if my laptop died I'd lose photos dating back 18 months or so. I guess this weekend I should start loading them up onto some cds. Hmmm.
YAY! You're back!!
Hmm...backing up...better get onto that...a year's worth of photos to lose on mine...
Hard Drive failures are going around. A friend here in Sydney had her photos stored on an external drive and backed up to CDs. Her external drive died last week and when she grabbed her CDs she found someone had dragged them along the tiles in her house. The CDs are unrecoverable, the hard drive has been sent O/s to see if data can be recovered.
And aren't new computers just so much faster than crappy about-to-die old ones? What a pain to lose the database and photos though.
I was so happy to see you back. So happy about the new computer.
Not so happy when I read your final paragraph.
Is the PC shopping part of your pre birthday shopping ? Welcome back- not long now until the BIG day!
Good news today, I think. It seems that the data on my hard drive may be recoverable. There is some chance that the computer was not reading the drive rather than the drive being corrupted. Will find out on the w/e.
Team SAK: no the computer does not count as pre-birthday shopping. However my pre-birthday shopping has been put on hold while I recover from the amount Firegazer bid on a painting at our school art show. See forthcoming post.
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Just saw your comment at my place. And commented there. Am now commenting here. As you do.
Looks like you might have to come to the mountains for lunch in January!
If you happen to line up at a local public school.
And that public school happens to be in Wentworth Falls.
You are so coming to see me for a glass of bubbles.
Hm. This is a sign I need to backup my own hardrive me thinks.
The cds drug across the tiles could describe events at my own house.
PC's fall in the appliance/necessity range. That can't come out of your personal shopping. That would be so very wrong.
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