Now I'm unhappy

[SeaCat]

Yesterday I carried the laptop out onto the patio and tried to fire it up. It started slow then came up with the message that it had been shut down improperly and was doing a Disc Scan. (Okay I can deal with that, but I hadn't shut it down wrong.) It took forever for the scan, in fact I moved it inside and went to bed.

This morning I woke it up and decided to run a defrag on it. It came up with the message that it could not run defrag because of damaged sectors, and needed to run Disc Scan.

Now I am installing Norton Disk Doctor, and it's taking forever.

I'm not sure what the problem is. I know it's not a virus, the laptop has never been hooked into the Internet. Maybe it's Windows ME acting up, and maybe it's the Hard Drive giving up the Ghost. We shall see. (I'm loading in Norton Disk Doctor now.)

Needless to say this is very irritating to me. This is the computer I do most of my writing on.

I'll see what Norton says. If it's the harddrive then I suppose I'll have to break down and buy a new Laptop. If Norton says the drive is fine then I'll have to go looking and find me a copy of Win 98 and install that. (I do not want ME.)

Thankfully everything is backed up on my desktop as well as CD's.

Irritating as hell. I like being able to grab the Laptop and going out on the patio to write. Maybe this is a sign it's time to build the system I want. A laptop or two, a Wireless Router, an external Hard Drive for Archiving, and a printer. Get rid of the Desk Top Computer and go with the portable system. ($$$$$$$$)

Cat

 

[S-Des]

Ugh, mine crashed in the spring. Windows XE got corrupted somehow and it took forever to get all the data recovered. I wound up getting a new hard drive and some other upgrades while I was getting it worked on. Now I back up everything on a 2nd computer. If it happens again, I'll just start all over. Microsoft is evil.

 

[sir_lancealot]

microsoft

I know what you mean... I was always having trouble with microsoft. Lost loads of stuff for work and play.

Just bought an apple macbook.. would never buy microsoft again. No need for antivirus apple do it for you...

 

[arienette]

Never use Windows ME.
Yep, that's all there is to it...

Or maybe not, but I do know that Windows ME gives people a lot of trouble.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Never use Windows ME.
Yep, that's all there is to it...

Or maybe not, but I do know that Windows ME gives people a lot of trouble.

98 ME is the worst operating system that I have ever used. When I bought my first PC some five years ago, someone told me that WinME was better for gaming than Win2000, and like the uneducated newb that I was I listened to them and bought a PC with ME on it. A year later I had to replace a hard drive and load Win2000 on it because ME had screwed everything up so badly.

Never again.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Microsoft.

'nuff said.

*hugs for SeaCat* Good luck!

 

[SeaCat]

Well,,,,,,,,,,

I took the laptop to the place I had bought it. The owner of the place owes, or at least feels that he owes me some favors so he had a tech look at the computer. Not good. It seems that when he pulled the hard drive and hooked it to another machine he found the hard drive itself damaged. (Lots of damaged sectors.) How did this happen? Who knows.

It's looking like I'll be without a laptop for a while until I find something I like that is within my price range. I'm not overly happy about this.

Cat