Crap. Crap. Crap.
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apollinavClick the cut if you have any interest in hearing my Microsoft rant.
Sufficed to say I'm out of commission for awhile-ish.
This morning I powered up the laptop to discover it wasn't happening. I called tech support, and after explaining several times I wasn't going to pay to extend my warranty, as my laptop was still under the original warrenty, and could we please get to the part where we fixed my laptop, I actually got connected to Tech Support. I had fears based upon an error message that my harddrive took a nose dive. And I wasn't getting initialization beeps.
So we did a system scan and discovered that it was VISTA that took the nose dive. Apparently VISTA is a piece of crap. No shit.
Long story short, I had to restore my laptop to the original factory settings.
Fuck.
I now have to find my Office Suite cd and install that. No problem.
But I've lost all my files. Some of them I have backed up on a geekstick. Some of them are loaded on googledocs.
Most are gone.
It won't hold up the next chapter of TGC, but it's still 'not good.' And the WIP I had nearly 10,000 words written for to post after TGC... gone too. And it was a dandy fic.
I need chocolate now. Does chocolate and margaritas go together?
Oh, and I forgot to mention. The A/C died last night. The compressor died, and that could be seriously expensive. I have fans blowing everywhere just to keep things marginally inhabitable. I have no idea where I'm miraculously going to pull the money for a new A/C compressor out of, but I'm still more bothered about losing my work. I could sit in a hot-box of a house and be miserable and sweating as long as I have my fics back.
Sufficed to say I'm out of commission for awhile-ish.
This morning I powered up the laptop to discover it wasn't happening. I called tech support, and after explaining several times I wasn't going to pay to extend my warranty, as my laptop was still under the original warrenty, and could we please get to the part where we fixed my laptop, I actually got connected to Tech Support. I had fears based upon an error message that my harddrive took a nose dive. And I wasn't getting initialization beeps.
So we did a system scan and discovered that it was VISTA that took the nose dive. Apparently VISTA is a piece of crap. No shit.
Long story short, I had to restore my laptop to the original factory settings.
Fuck.
I now have to find my Office Suite cd and install that. No problem.
But I've lost all my files. Some of them I have backed up on a geekstick. Some of them are loaded on googledocs.
Most are gone.
It won't hold up the next chapter of TGC, but it's still 'not good.' And the WIP I had nearly 10,000 words written for to post after TGC... gone too. And it was a dandy fic.
I need chocolate now. Does chocolate and margaritas go together?
Oh, and I forgot to mention. The A/C died last night. The compressor died, and that could be seriously expensive. I have fans blowing everywhere just to keep things marginally inhabitable. I have no idea where I'm miraculously going to pull the money for a new A/C compressor out of, but I'm still more bothered about losing my work. I could sit in a hot-box of a house and be miserable and sweating as long as I have my fics back.
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Date: 2 May 2009 10:57 pm (UTC)I got a laptop a few years ago and it was a nice sleek pretty one, I wanted it to last me a while. It lasted 3 months. I tried to install Real Player and it crashed my whole system. I'm sure you can imagine my level of pissed offness. About fifty of my stories went down the tube and I'm still trying to start to rewrite them all. Most of them Original works. Screw Microsoft, screw it hard with something large and sandpapery.
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Date: 3 May 2009 09:50 pm (UTC)Large, sandpapery, no lube.
I'm just thankful things are still there on googledocs. If that crashed I'd go ballistic.