...And then my laptop died.
ETA: It's back up now, after popping the CD Drive out, it booted up again (?). Who knows if this will last.
But. It booted. Then it crashed. Blue screen saying something about "If this is the first time you've seen this" and something about the drive. (Sorry, I panicked and restarted and may not have paid as close of attention as I ought.) Then it couldn't boot. It would go through the booting up screen and then go to just a blinking cursor on a black screen and eventually give notice that no bootable drive was found. When going under settings, it did not see the internal hard drive. Multiple attempts to restart failed.
So, O My Fabulous Smart Computer People:
1. Any idea what's going on?
2. Will this happen again?
3. Anything I can do to prevent it happening, or is my laptop now toast as well?
4. Was I abducted by aliens? Why is all technology I touch dying?
But. It booted. Then it crashed. Blue screen saying something about "If this is the first time you've seen this" and something about the drive. (Sorry, I panicked and restarted and may not have paid as close of attention as I ought.) Then it couldn't boot. It would go through the booting up screen and then go to just a blinking cursor on a black screen and eventually give notice that no bootable drive was found. When going under settings, it did not see the internal hard drive. Multiple attempts to restart failed.
So, O My Fabulous Smart Computer People:
1. Any idea what's going on?
2. Will this happen again?
3. Anything I can do to prevent it happening, or is my laptop now toast as well?
4. Was I abducted by aliens? Why is all technology I touch dying?