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Those who know me may know by now that I have quite a love-hate relationship with computers. I love using them, but things go wrong so often. It makes me so sad.
As I have been planning for a few weeks, I finally got around to reformatting my computer and reinstalling windows. Everything went fine until I came to switching on my 250gb external hard drive. Nothing. I tried a million times and a million approaches. Still the same. What worried me most was the strange ’struggling’ sound from the hard drive.
It was at this point that my heart raced. I was scared. Very scared. Later I met my brother and we pondered the predicament. Though not before spotting some strange behaviour around the City Hall. Vikings!
He suggested disconnecting the drive from all the USB circuitry. A good idea. Took it home and connected it via IDE to Dad’s computer. It worked!
Boy was I relieved. Everything I own is on that disk. Everything! This was possibly the most worried I have been about my data. It’s happened before, but not to such a scale and at a time when data is so important to me, and when I have so much. Thankfully the problem was solved and everything is safe.
Rather than drowning my sorrows I went out feeling good. Ed Zealous were playing in The Pavilion as part of Rinka club nigh. I like Ed Zealous.
There will be daily, weekly, by-weekly and monthly backups made. This sorta thing will not get a chance to happen again!
8 Comments
will you pay for it?
“Get” implies thats your responsibility.
“you pay” implies that I cannot afford such a piece of kit.
I thought you hated mac’s? : ) haha
I do. Can’t stand them. But if I had lots and lots of cash I might get one to try it out. But I won’t like it.
same fookin’ thing happened my external drive last week. But alas, using an IDE adapter didn’t help me.
Good bye weeks of college work… :(
aw man! that sucks!
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