cyclic redundancy check, komm, süsser tod

[swordianmaster]

it all started with a crc error on a torrent I was running.

Things snowballed, as they tend to on computers, and now it appears that my hard-drive is completely, irreversibly, 100% fubar'd. There might be more wrong. I don't know. It's a six-year-old computer, and I can't afford to get any replacement... well... anythingI'm typing this from a

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[negative_five]

so, um, you... don't know me, we really just rp in the same game together and I saw your signal boost of plight/distress/whatever, and I just... I have like, two laptops literally just sitting around. one of them I'm pretty sure is on the fritz unless I can make my boyfriend fix it now rather than later, but the other one is in practically semi-new condition?

um... good deed of the day and all... if you want it, I could see what I can do??

[swordianmaster]

...I would owe you forever and ever.

Hell, I'd do my best to start liking Glee if you did that kind of deed for me.

[negative_five]

DUDE, YES. MORE PEOPLE ON THE GLEE CAST.

no, seriously, you wouldn't owe me a thing. it's like, literally just sitting around. I was using it on the rare occasion for when my sister would come over and would want a laptop to use, but... anyway, long story short, it's really just sitting around. and... I am so fucking attached to my laptop that I just can't even fathom what it would be like not to have one, you know? so if I can make your life a little bit more awesome, hey, good <3

it's relatively new-ish, too, so it's not a total piece of crap, and was used just by my mom before, so you know it didn't get a lot of use to begin with... hold on, let me figure out make/model. okay, it's an hp pavilion dv6700. so. and it runs vista, which sucks, but yeah.

[swordianmaster]

I've only got 10 minutes left on this comp... if you ever spoke with the old Magica mun, she's still on my FList and can get my contact info - if not, keep a look out for Bahamut725 on the offchance that I might be online?

Re: Possible solutions

[swordianmaster]

I'll give it some thought, see what I can do.

Shit, knowing my luck, the restore disc DIDN'T fuck up the last time I ran it (I decided to try one last time while I came out here), especially since people are offering help.

[baxil]

I have a perfectly serviceable desktop machine (P4 3Ghz) I picked up used just a short time ago from a garage sale. I've been playing around with it because it's the first time I've owned a Windows PC, so I know it works fine. The downside is that it's as old as your current machine, and shipping for a desktop tower would be kinda heinous.

I would be happy to chip in on shipping costs if you would rather have someone else's laptop, or if there's any other way for me to be useful here. I can't stand the thought that, on top of everything else, your opportunities for social connection and roleplay might be cut off.

(Plus -- allow me to be selfish for a moment here -- I don't want to lose Flare Star. :))

[swordianmaster]

We'll see, as of tomorrow, I guess.

I fully endorse anyone interested in helping to speak with each other, but I'll just have to see what happens. Sorry for dramabombing all over everyone.

[roll_soul]

You know, I've got an XP harddrive I can send you, if you want. It's just been sitting around, particularly since I upgraded recently. It's only 4GB but that's enough to get up and running, at least? Failing that, I'm willing to chip in whatever money I can, including also boostering any shipping costs from other people.

[swordianmaster]

Considering the system restore takes up 8MB at LEAST (4 mb for XP, 4+ for system restore partition), that's a smidge too small.

I seriously appreciate the thought, at least.

[swordianmaster]

GB. Not MB.

Show me a kernel that fits on 4MB and I'll show you a piece of popcorn.

[bikerwalla]

My last two years have sucked progressively worse as well. I wouldn't take it personally.