SnoopDog
Lit's Little Beagle
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- Sep 8, 2002
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Oh boy, I recently had my personal Computer-Waterloo.
Notice how I haven't been online the last weeks?
Here goes the story. Right at the end of the semester when I have to do a lot of computer research and also have to write and turn in three papers á 15 pages, I leave my room with my pc on. It's a very old Windows 98, 560Mhz, 20GB Harddrive computer, which was very slow and crappy. But you know, I'm not a tech-wiz and I certainly don't discriminate computers just because they have had their best days. I liked him and he liked me. The harddrive was full with music, data, texts, pics, etc.
Anyways, after half an hour I returned to my pc. I moved to the mouse to another browser tab, klicked...adnthen it frooze. So far, I didn't get suspicious, it does that all the time. So I hit the 'reset'-button like usual. Then it booted up very slowly which mad me frown. I hit the "Reset"-button again and the next time it booted up, it said "hard disk drive not found" or something like that. I started to get anxious. A couple of tries later the only thing it did after booting was beeping like a mobile phone on crack and giving me different information like "status: okay but failed to command" or "status: corrupted" or "status: critical, store data and replace".
Now I started to freak out. It dawned to me that my very old and fully-loaded harddrive might have died on me. Hope was rekindled when the next day it did boot up, and windows started. But it was very slow. Nevertheless I was able to burn one CD with the most important data before the system froze again...this time for good.
Now, everytime I start it up, the harddrive produces weird mechanical sounds.
GODDAMN IT. It's gone. All my data gone. And I am in desperate need to use a computer this month. I was so pissed last week. Now I have to write all my seminar-papers at the University, which is really quite annyoing and once in a while depend on my g/f's willingness to lend me her laptop.
Let's not forget that I will have to spend several hundred Euros to buy a new one (yeah, I know, I could replace the har drive but this machine is so damn old, that I will have to replace it now) and I don'T know shit on what to buy or how to set it up.
Oh boy, I fucking hate computers.
I admit, I was kinda naive. I never thought something like that would happen...hence no backups. But boy, it could have warned me at least.
Sorry, I had to vent but this is really moving me.
Anyways, I can't be on here very often in the near future. I don't know hether anyone cares but I just wanted to let people know.
Snoopy, missing old type-writers.
Notice how I haven't been online the last weeks?
Here goes the story. Right at the end of the semester when I have to do a lot of computer research and also have to write and turn in three papers á 15 pages, I leave my room with my pc on. It's a very old Windows 98, 560Mhz, 20GB Harddrive computer, which was very slow and crappy. But you know, I'm not a tech-wiz and I certainly don't discriminate computers just because they have had their best days. I liked him and he liked me. The harddrive was full with music, data, texts, pics, etc.
Anyways, after half an hour I returned to my pc. I moved to the mouse to another browser tab, klicked...adnthen it frooze. So far, I didn't get suspicious, it does that all the time. So I hit the 'reset'-button like usual. Then it booted up very slowly which mad me frown. I hit the "Reset"-button again and the next time it booted up, it said "hard disk drive not found" or something like that. I started to get anxious. A couple of tries later the only thing it did after booting was beeping like a mobile phone on crack and giving me different information like "status: okay but failed to command" or "status: corrupted" or "status: critical, store data and replace".
Now I started to freak out. It dawned to me that my very old and fully-loaded harddrive might have died on me. Hope was rekindled when the next day it did boot up, and windows started. But it was very slow. Nevertheless I was able to burn one CD with the most important data before the system froze again...this time for good.
Now, everytime I start it up, the harddrive produces weird mechanical sounds.
GODDAMN IT. It's gone. All my data gone. And I am in desperate need to use a computer this month. I was so pissed last week. Now I have to write all my seminar-papers at the University, which is really quite annyoing and once in a while depend on my g/f's willingness to lend me her laptop.
Let's not forget that I will have to spend several hundred Euros to buy a new one (yeah, I know, I could replace the har drive but this machine is so damn old, that I will have to replace it now) and I don'T know shit on what to buy or how to set it up.
Oh boy, I fucking hate computers.
I admit, I was kinda naive. I never thought something like that would happen...hence no backups. But boy, it could have warned me at least.
Sorry, I had to vent but this is really moving me.
Anyways, I can't be on here very often in the near future. I don't know hether anyone cares but I just wanted to let people know.
Snoopy, missing old type-writers.
Look into second hand, not as expensive but often nearly as good as new anyway 
