HE HAS RISEN
YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS. My laptop is alive! And with its original hard drive still! And it just cost me an hour of labor! I AM SO EXCITED.
If you weren't a reader back then, my laptop died in Egypt at the beginning of October. It was buggy for about two weeks before that and then one night I decided to run error check to figure things out, I left the room, and when I came back he was gone. Well I took it over to the repair guy I've used before and I told him the story. He said that since I mentioned there were a lot of power failures/surges/etc. in Egypt and that I was running error check, if something happened to the power during that, it could cause the computer to think that all was lost when it did hard drive checks. Sure enough, he ran a separate diagnostic on the physical hard drive and it came back a-okay. So he did a check disk for software issues and found all sorts of errors. I assume that the diagnostic automagically fixed them.
Then when he put the hard drive back in my laptop, it wanted to run another diagnostic, so he did that. That finished and it booted up the laptop. Except he said that there were "bad noises" coming from the hard drive that are consistent with imminent death (TM). They advised me to back up my shit if I couldn't afford a new hard drive and install at this moment (which I can't, I have less than $3000 to pay for half-time tuition at the U of M this spring semester and I don't have a job yet, EEEP.). Funny story, I take him home and boot up and he sounds just like usual. My conclusion? Apollo has been on his last legs for quite some time now :(. Thankfully a few of my computer friends have told me that if/when the hard drive bites the bullet, they're quite easy to reinstall these days, pop out two screws and an operating system disc and you are golden. But that would still require a job soon. And woe. I don't want to think about that.
In other news, I am getting all four of my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. One is impacted and a second has half of it covered by the gum. I really hope that the anesthesiologist notices that I weigh 92 pounds? That'd be great. I really don't want to have my dad sit in the waiting room for four hours because I haven't come to yet! Well I'm sure I'll have a fascinating LJ update for you guys following this little experience! Stay classy.
If you weren't a reader back then, my laptop died in Egypt at the beginning of October. It was buggy for about two weeks before that and then one night I decided to run error check to figure things out, I left the room, and when I came back he was gone. Well I took it over to the repair guy I've used before and I told him the story. He said that since I mentioned there were a lot of power failures/surges/etc. in Egypt and that I was running error check, if something happened to the power during that, it could cause the computer to think that all was lost when it did hard drive checks. Sure enough, he ran a separate diagnostic on the physical hard drive and it came back a-okay. So he did a check disk for software issues and found all sorts of errors. I assume that the diagnostic automagically fixed them.
Then when he put the hard drive back in my laptop, it wanted to run another diagnostic, so he did that. That finished and it booted up the laptop. Except he said that there were "bad noises" coming from the hard drive that are consistent with imminent death (TM). They advised me to back up my shit if I couldn't afford a new hard drive and install at this moment (which I can't, I have less than $3000 to pay for half-time tuition at the U of M this spring semester and I don't have a job yet, EEEP.). Funny story, I take him home and boot up and he sounds just like usual. My conclusion? Apollo has been on his last legs for quite some time now :(. Thankfully a few of my computer friends have told me that if/when the hard drive bites the bullet, they're quite easy to reinstall these days, pop out two screws and an operating system disc and you are golden. But that would still require a job soon. And woe. I don't want to think about that.
In other news, I am getting all four of my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. One is impacted and a second has half of it covered by the gum. I really hope that the anesthesiologist notices that I weigh 92 pounds? That'd be great. I really don't want to have my dad sit in the waiting room for four hours because I haven't come to yet! Well I'm sure I'll have a fascinating LJ update for you guys following this little experience! Stay classy.