Full Circle...
Lets see... first order of business: Ace of Base quickly loses its appeal when you try to listen to it again.
Next: Computers...
OK. SO, up until today My laptop randomly locked up. I took it to Circuit City who said it was a hard drive problem and they were unable to recover the data from it. I bought a new hard drive from Newegg and it didn't fix my problem. Meaning either they diagnosed it wrong or the new HDD was DOA.
Today (because I was running out of time to return the new HDD) I finally backed up my sisters data on her laptop and stole it for a few hours. I swapped the hard drives (because I was certain hers worked), and BAM, nothing changed. The lappy still locked up on boot up and couldn't start all the way up. So it wasn't the hard drive, or at least it wasn't only the hard drive.
Next I tested the whole "non-recoverable data" thing by booting up her laptop with my old hard drive in it. And flick the dick it worked without a hitch. I quickly (over the course of about 3 hours) snagged all of my "lost" data. WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO.
I should have done this weeks ago. I suck. But hey, it's done and I have everything back.
So the moral of the story? Don't believe Circuit City, they were wrong on BOTH counts. Someone really needs to tell me though how I, the hardware n00b, was able to "recover" that data when they weren't able to. Asshats. Gonna have to go back there and bitch them out, because now I still don't have a laptop that works, they diagnosed it wrong, and I paid $90 for a new hard drive that I can't return without a 15% restocking fee + Shipping.
Finally: Pain...
I've been getting stress headaches lately, and my stomach has been extra angry at me for not feeding it. Then it gets angry again when I do feed it.
This rubberbanding back and forth from high to low, happy to sad, pleasant to rageful, is really exhausting and is starting to take its toll.
"And will you tell all your friends, you've got your gun to my head..."
Next: Computers...
OK. SO, up until today My laptop randomly locked up. I took it to Circuit City who said it was a hard drive problem and they were unable to recover the data from it. I bought a new hard drive from Newegg and it didn't fix my problem. Meaning either they diagnosed it wrong or the new HDD was DOA.
Today (because I was running out of time to return the new HDD) I finally backed up my sisters data on her laptop and stole it for a few hours. I swapped the hard drives (because I was certain hers worked), and BAM, nothing changed. The lappy still locked up on boot up and couldn't start all the way up. So it wasn't the hard drive, or at least it wasn't only the hard drive.
Next I tested the whole "non-recoverable data" thing by booting up her laptop with my old hard drive in it. And flick the dick it worked without a hitch. I quickly (over the course of about 3 hours) snagged all of my "lost" data. WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO.
I should have done this weeks ago. I suck. But hey, it's done and I have everything back.
So the moral of the story? Don't believe Circuit City, they were wrong on BOTH counts. Someone really needs to tell me though how I, the hardware n00b, was able to "recover" that data when they weren't able to. Asshats. Gonna have to go back there and bitch them out, because now I still don't have a laptop that works, they diagnosed it wrong, and I paid $90 for a new hard drive that I can't return without a 15% restocking fee + Shipping.
Finally: Pain...
I've been getting stress headaches lately, and my stomach has been extra angry at me for not feeding it. Then it gets angry again when I do feed it.
This rubberbanding back and forth from high to low, happy to sad, pleasant to rageful, is really exhausting and is starting to take its toll.
"And will you tell all your friends, you've got your gun to my head..."