My laptop's hard drive has dropped into Limbo.
Today I went to Starbucks and managed to spill a full cup of coffee all over my table, shirt, jeans, and the floor. Not much of it got on the table, but a very little bit got onto the bottom of my laptop. I didn't think it would be a problem after it was dried off. So I went home, changed, and then went back to the Starbucks. A particular website made my laptop freeze, and then when I tried to do a brute-force restart using the power button, it told me it couldn't detect the hard drive. This may or may not have to do with the coffee, I don't know.
I'm currently posting from the desktop computer at home. I'm going to hook up the hard drive from my laptop to the desktop computer (using a handy USB adapter we have) when my dad brings the adapter home from work. It remains to be seen whether my own hard drive will remember that we even had a revised resume in progress, or whether the whole thing will have turned into scrambled egg. I hope my laptop is having fun building sandcastle skyscrapers. ;-) :-D
Update Saturday 9/18: Since I posted this entry, I've backed up everything from that hard drive, then put the hard drive back into the laptop. They both worked perfectly. I don't get it. Because my dad offered to help me, and because right after backing up everything seemed like a good time to do it, we spent most of the day wiping and reformatting that hard drive and rebuilding the entire system from the ground up, making it dual-boot for the first time. I'll be able to use Windows 7 for the Cisco Academy curriculum program, iTunes, Finale, Adobe Premiere if I ever get back to it, and JumpStart 3rd Grade if I ever get back to that, and Ubuntu for everything else. I'm looking forward to getting my laptop back. (I'm still on the big desktop computer right now.)
I'm currently posting from the desktop computer at home. I'm going to hook up the hard drive from my laptop to the desktop computer (using a handy USB adapter we have) when my dad brings the adapter home from work. It remains to be seen whether my own hard drive will remember that we even had a revised resume in progress, or whether the whole thing will have turned into scrambled egg. I hope my laptop is having fun building sandcastle skyscrapers. ;-) :-D
Update Saturday 9/18: Since I posted this entry, I've backed up everything from that hard drive, then put the hard drive back into the laptop. They both worked perfectly. I don't get it. Because my dad offered to help me, and because right after backing up everything seemed like a good time to do it, we spent most of the day wiping and reformatting that hard drive and rebuilding the entire system from the ground up, making it dual-boot for the first time. I'll be able to use Windows 7 for the Cisco Academy curriculum program, iTunes, Finale, Adobe Premiere if I ever get back to it, and JumpStart 3rd Grade if I ever get back to that, and Ubuntu for everything else. I'm looking forward to getting my laptop back. (I'm still on the big desktop computer right now.)