Comments | lizblackdog: Everything is stunted and lost

lizblackdog

Everything is stunted and lost

Sep 02, 2008 15:25

...my computer died ( Read more... )

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dreaminginred16 September 2 2008, 15:17:30 UTC

My computer died recently too.. Like in May. The motherboard went on it suddenly. :( Now I got have Killswitch, and he is a lovely comp.. I'd love to upgrade the ram on him though. Mine would boot up, but would not go to windows. It kept telling me that is could not find my OS, and that my mouse and keyboard could not be found. Thought it was the HD but turned out to be the motherboard.

lizblackdog September 3 2008, 00:25:00 UTC

Ir could well be that. I am pretty damn ignorant about these things, sadly. I hope you didn't lose much important stuff?

dreaminginred16 September 3 2008, 00:36:21 UTC

Actually. No I didn't lose anything. I opted for a cheaper route. I bought a new system, took the HD from my old computer and RAM and put it into Killswitch.

ghost07 September 2 2008, 16:46:50 UTC

AARRGGHH! I think I would be frothing at the mouth by now. glad you're back.

lizblackdog September 3 2008, 00:20:31 UTC

I cried. I am not completely cut off, but it feels close. Thank you!

ext_9692 September 2 2008, 17:51:04 UTC

One of mine died recently too. Disk headcrash shortly after my backup system
ate the last full backup. I'm an IT Professional I should know better....

lizblackdog September 3 2008, 00:18:54 UTC

Ouch!

I hope I can get my data back. Ideally, I hope it's possible to splice the two computers together - decent RAM and an official Windows XP that can be updated would be great.

thank you!

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lizblackdog September 3 2008, 00:15:25 UTC

Thank you!

It scares me a bit - both how much I rely on it and how little I really know about it.

mwenyekischaa September 3 2008, 10:17:03 UTC

It actually wouldn't be a good idea to move your Mom's harddrive into your computer - the OS was configured during installation to work with a particular motherboard and system configuration - your mom's - and putting it into a new machine, unless the motherboard make is nearly the same, could result in confusion and instability for Windows.

The version of Windows on your computer likely had nothing to do with the crash. If the computer can't find the boot sector, that means that area of the drive was somehow damaged. I hope it's possible to recover your data, but the boot sector is always the first part of the drive to be accessed for any reason...an error there is very bad news.

lizblackdog September 3 2008, 11:20:48 UTC

I thought Windows throve on confusion and instability?

Bleh. I hate computers so much. Nothing's ever simple.

On the upside, this one is running better now I've done spyware sweeps and deleted the 3000+ temporary internet files that were lurking on it.