GRRRRRRR

[paraka]

OMG, I think I'm going to kill something!

So, a recap before we begin.
-At about mid-January my computer was having problems re-charging
-By the end of January, it wasn't charging at all, so I sent it into Gateway to be fixed.
-By the end of February I still didn't have it back.
-I used my mom's computer in the meantime, but then, like a week to the end of February, the fan on it blew, and it wouldn't turn on.
-So really desperate (and out of a computer) I harassed Gateway for about 2 weeks, and got them to give me a new computer, and send me the hard drive out of the old one.
-Beginning of March I get the "new" computer.
-My mom's is still in for repairs.

Tonight though, I was on my computer, and everything was going fine. Sure it was running a bit slow since I was running a *lot* of things (4 heavy programs) but still my computer was handling it fine.

Then, all of a sudden, it shuts down. When it tries to restart it takes me to a screen saying something like "Your computer shut down unexpectedly, if this happened blah blah blah, or if this happened blah, blah, blah. Start: in Safe mode, to last working configuration, normally."

I tried all of these options, and it didn't work! It would try to start Windows, fail, go to a BSOD with, probably, the answers as to WTF is going on, for about 2 seconds (seriously it wasn't even enough time for me to take a *picture* of it) and then restarts and repeats the whole process.

Hi, my name is Lindsay, the Break of Computers.
Kill me now. Or Gateway, either works.

I wasn't able to really read the BSOD, but at the bottom it said something like "Technical Information" and what looked like address location. So I switched hard drives (I had been using the one from my old computer, and now have the "new" one in."

At least my computer is working, but I'm going to cry, long and hard, if I can't get the data off of the old one. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now, and back shit up. *cries*

I seriously hate my life at the moment.

Comments

[anoel.livejournal.com]

That is EXACTLY what happened with my computer. Exactly with the BSOD and restarting. I really hope you can recover the info because I've learned my lesson too and still failed to back it up. These are the times when I really hate computers (and life). Good luck!

[paraka]

As soon as it happened I thought of you. :S

I'm hoping if I take the broken HD in, they might be able to recover. It would really suck if I lost everything. I was almost finished a vid, only had to go back and touch up some scenes. So it would really *really* suck if I had to start all over again. *cries*

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Gah I know. All of my unfinished vid projects are on there but thankfully I wasn't too far with any of the vids. The first time it happened was when I had almost finished my QaF vid so it destroyed me to lose that. I reeeally hope you can recover it *sends good wishes*

[paraka]

Well it won't be a complete loss if I can't get it back, I do have the unbeta'd version saved, but I still had editing, so will have to replace all the clips going off of what I had done (Premiere does weird things if you just stick the saved version in, and makes it look bad :( ) luckily it was a shortish vid. I just really hope I can get my stuff back :S

[callie89.livejournal.com]

I've had a similar problem about a year ago. And as serious as the problem was, I mean some major shit went down with this computer that I thought it was a total wash, the comp techs were able to retrieve the data from the toasted hard drive or most of it. But because of that experience, I have learned to do back ups now. Something that I just was very lax in doing prior to this.

FYI...just in case you don't know this, I was ask to write down what I especially wanted saved from the hard drive. It might be a good idea for you to do that ahead of time. Jot down has much info as you can remember that is saved. It helps make their job a bit easier...somehow. I don't know how, just that it does or so I was told.

;-)