Lulz (What Panic?)

[jheti]

My laptop appears to be bricked. I do in fact suspect brickification.

As I know more, so shall you.

Thank god I backed my thesis up yesterday.

I think I have a version of the disaster, also, though it's a few months old, and some lolcats.

I am too frightened to pitch any sort of fit.

Comments

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

Do you have the money to invest in a hard drive dock? If so I can walk you through this. Mine bricked in November.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

HP has her in their clutches as we speak, but thank you for the offer; it was lovely to see in my Inbox yesterday ^_^

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

This happens to you more than other people. :( I suspect some sort of biological electromagnetic field that truly indicates you are a higher being than the rest of us. (^_~)

Um, as long as it wasn't a hard drive crash, you can recover from this. Depending on what it was (power failure? processor fried? screen failure?--mine did that), you may get it fixed. Otherwise, take the hard drive out and keep it if you get rid of the rest of it instead of fixing it. You can find some way to get the files off. My laptop at work had a power short that fried the motherboard, and the IT guy just took my hard drive out and stuck it in another laptop of the same model, and it was like nothing had happened. That's kind of a radical case (don't expect you to have another version of the same laptop on hand), but some computer repair place in town can probably help you at least get the files off.

(On another note, this happens to you so often, I would suggest investing in some backup something. I've found an external hard drive works really nice if you can afford the hardware. I'll point you at a program that's awesome for syncing it, and then you can just plug it in and run the program, and it does most of the work for you. It's my new love, since I got sick of burning 28+/- DVDs when I wanted to backup. I definitely backup more now since it became easy. If you have an external, it can fail, but the chances of both of them failing at the same time are very slim. Otherwise, I'm going to make you give me the newest copy of Shadows every time we speak. :p)

[jheti.livejournal.com]

<3

Official line from the company was "We have no idea; put it in the box without the hard drives in". Internet suggests it's some sort of ungodly screen/motherboard combination problem, which my model is apparently known for.

I could have switched them into Stepdad's, but his broke down the EXACT SAME DAY with an IDENTICAL PROBLEM (except for the part where mine doesn't boot, whereas his will and plugs into an external monitor without trouble). It was the day we were finally ready to commence backing stuff up! Much helpless laughter ensued.

I have a full backup from the hardware meltdown (electrical!) six months ago, so it's not as OMG FAIL as some of the others.

We are definitely definitely getting an external thingy. It is decided. We were planning on one anyway, right before this happened, so now that I have expert seconding it, it shall happen.

You are my Chloe yes. *Squeeble.* <3

Oh gods and powers I'm tempted to take you up on that, except I can't, because it's still all ugly-stepchildy. Like badly. And there are parts of it that carry over into the next, and I can't quite distinguish those drabs from the Obvious Musefoo Fodder yet. Record-breaking tiny aside is TINY.

But I appreciate it. ^_^

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Okay, good, external!

Also, a giant XD to whatever model of computer you have. But, hey, at least the battery didn't explode, right?

Um, I was thinking you could password-protect your Shadows draft. .rar will do it if whatever word processor you use won't. I respect your creative process and don't want to see it before you're ready. I just don't want you to lose it again. :(

Alternately, you might try emailing it to yourself every once in a while (frequently). Google inboxes are pretty much unlimited, so it could be like pseudo version control.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

My thought process was that if I was going to give it to you, it should be nice; I didn't want to "promise" things in-draft that I might not be able to deliver. *Red-faced.*

Encrypted is probably better; I wouldn't demand "omg no peeking!!1111" at an open file. I know you can keep a secret, but for me to just dangle stuff in front of you would be plain old unfair.

If you don't mind it sitting around, I'd feel welcomed and pleased with you having a copy. ^_^