I was a week and a half without my computer. For someone who depends on the internet for entertainment, paying bills and a slew of other things, a week and a half was plenty long. I'm glad to have my pain-in-the-ass computer back. (just not glad to have had to spend $300+ to get it back)
Lesson learned: BACK YOUR SHIT UP!
Ugh.
Not that I had anything all that important on my computer, just photos and music for the most part, but its all gone. GONE. Thankfully I had most of my photos either on Facebook or in Photobucket, but there are a few that are gone, never to be recovered again. Music has mostly been put onto my MP3 already so thats not a huge concern. Its more my photos I'm worried about.
However, my computer died without warning last Thursday (which is why nothing got backed up). Used it Wednesday night, it was fine. Thursday morning = dead. The diagnosis: hard drive failure. FANFUCKINGTASTIC. Off to Geek Squad it went. $200 in labour and $100 for a new hard driver later, I have my computer back. Now I'm in the midst of reinstalling MSN, redownloading my Spyware program and my antivirus stuff. I no longer have the link to the board (if someone could send me a link to my Facebook inbox, I'd appreciate it!), all my "favorites" are gone. Blah.
Oh well, at least my computer is back up and running and will hopefully remain that way forever more.
Oh no! That's horrible. This is one of my fears.. and actually I was just talking about getting an external hard drive. I think I need to get one ASAP! Clearly you never know when it will happen!
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