If only I liked beer
I return, triumphant!
Not that I was posting regularly, but you don't think about how much you casually scroll, etc., until you're stuck without a working personal computer. :P
During the painfully horrible (month end close sucks) first week of January, I finally managed the right combination of things which finished off my hard drive. I couldn't boot into regular Windows. I could manage safe mode! So I started in on the task of buying a drive to back my data up. Which didn't work with the first drive I bought (it was slightly cheaper than some of the others, and was corrupted very quickly, apparently). So I bought a Seagate and pulled everything off. Again.
I knew it had to be the drive (well, guessed), because I couldn't get into the recovery environment, and it couldn't wipe and reinstall Windows.
So with my roommate's help, we flipped it upside-down and pulled out the old drive, cleaned the fan, swapped in new memory and... she also downloaded the restore utility - and then applied it.
So now I have a shiny new hard drive (with more space, after all, why not upgrade while I'm at it). And all of my files to add (music is all added back except for the variances between the one backup and the newer one).
But it does mean re-downloading all of my games. I'm not sure if I can just shove them back on the computer (I pulled all of them but the really stupid Pride and Prejudice one, oh, and fucking Time Gap, off the old computer). (also, who knows if all of the files are ok) Cross-posted from Dreamwidth. (comment wherever)
Not that I was posting regularly, but you don't think about how much you casually scroll, etc., until you're stuck without a working personal computer. :P
During the painfully horrible (month end close sucks) first week of January, I finally managed the right combination of things which finished off my hard drive. I couldn't boot into regular Windows. I could manage safe mode! So I started in on the task of buying a drive to back my data up. Which didn't work with the first drive I bought (it was slightly cheaper than some of the others, and was corrupted very quickly, apparently). So I bought a Seagate and pulled everything off. Again.
I knew it had to be the drive (well, guessed), because I couldn't get into the recovery environment, and it couldn't wipe and reinstall Windows.
So with my roommate's help, we flipped it upside-down and pulled out the old drive, cleaned the fan, swapped in new memory and... she also downloaded the restore utility - and then applied it.
So now I have a shiny new hard drive (with more space, after all, why not upgrade while I'm at it). And all of my files to add (music is all added back except for the variances between the one backup and the newer one).
But it does mean re-downloading all of my games. I'm not sure if I can just shove them back on the computer (I pulled all of them but the really stupid Pride and Prejudice one, oh, and fucking Time Gap, off the old computer). (also, who knows if all of the files are ok) Cross-posted from Dreamwidth. (comment wherever)