Pegasus Needs to be Destroyed
I was really looking forward to coming home after a long day of orientation and writing down in my dear LJ the major events of the day, including the very odd, but nice, behavior of the ladies in Transportation and Parking and my happiness at being back at work as a full-time employee, but when I went to turn on my computer my big hard drive (Pegasus) didn't show up.
Basically I've got a brick (aka the hard drive failed) and I'm quite sure that the name Pegasus is haunted. If I didn't know any better I'd say the CO of Pegasus just got shot by a tortured lover, but it's just a hard drive and hard drives don't have admirals or lovers...right? Anyway, the Pegasus curse lives on in my damned Seagate hard drive that has now "bricked". Fantastic. I emailed support and asked them about my options seeing as over 30% of these hard drive models have failed (holy frak!) and they are reported to offer a free replacment and data recovery. This would be great because all of my data is basically on that one drive (documents, fic, music, pictures). I can at least boot up into Windows 7 and play games....
Except now I can't boot up into windows because my ntoskrnl.exe is "missing or corrupted". Well you can just kiss my ass Gaius (desktop's name).
*facepalm*
Not a good computer day.
And I will never, ever, name anything else Pegasus; it only brings bad luck.
But, seriously, I'm a full-time staff person! *happy dance* I'm so excited.
The true test is if I'm excited tomorrow.
ETA: Got the desktop to run again (the SATA cords weren't connected to the right hd so my Windows disk wasn't labeled c:). Is it bad that when I saw the Windows logo I pointed at the computer, gave an evil laugh, and said "I out smarted you!"?
ETA 2.0: I just found out that I have a two year-old backup of all my documents on my uber-old Western Digital HD which, just like my laptop, will not die no matter what I do to it. The only things that I'm missing right now are the pictures I've taken over the past two years. If I could never recover the data on Pegasus (it's still there, the problem with the HD has nothing to do with the data, only how it is accessed) then it wouldn't be the end of the world. I could even get my Ireland and Italy photos from my mom's computer if I needed to. All in all, not the end of the world. I'll survive.
Seriously, the Millennium Falcon will not die. Really.
Basically I've got a brick (aka the hard drive failed) and I'm quite sure that the name Pegasus is haunted. If I didn't know any better I'd say the CO of Pegasus just got shot by a tortured lover, but it's just a hard drive and hard drives don't have admirals or lovers...right? Anyway, the Pegasus curse lives on in my damned Seagate hard drive that has now "bricked". Fantastic. I emailed support and asked them about my options seeing as over 30% of these hard drive models have failed (holy frak!) and they are reported to offer a free replacment and data recovery. This would be great because all of my data is basically on that one drive (documents, fic, music, pictures). I can at least boot up into Windows 7 and play games....
Except now I can't boot up into windows because my ntoskrnl.exe is "missing or corrupted". Well you can just kiss my ass Gaius (desktop's name).
*facepalm*
Not a good computer day.
And I will never, ever, name anything else Pegasus; it only brings bad luck.
But, seriously, I'm a full-time staff person! *happy dance* I'm so excited.
The true test is if I'm excited tomorrow.
ETA: Got the desktop to run again (the SATA cords weren't connected to the right hd so my Windows disk wasn't labeled c:). Is it bad that when I saw the Windows logo I pointed at the computer, gave an evil laugh, and said "I out smarted you!"?
ETA 2.0: I just found out that I have a two year-old backup of all my documents on my uber-old Western Digital HD which, just like my laptop, will not die no matter what I do to it. The only things that I'm missing right now are the pictures I've taken over the past two years. If I could never recover the data on Pegasus (it's still there, the problem with the HD has nothing to do with the data, only how it is accessed) then it wouldn't be the end of the world. I could even get my Ireland and Italy photos from my mom's computer if I needed to. All in all, not the end of the world. I'll survive.
Seriously, the Millennium Falcon will not die. Really.