Never have I had such a string of bad luck with my computer.
First, for no particular reason, the internal hard drive fails to boot up. I didn’t execute anything fishy. No new programs are hardware. I did everything a nerdlike myself would to try to figure out the problem, but I would boot up only to have the thing stare at me blankly, blinking.
I test the Hard Drive on another computer and my data is all still there, in tact, it just won’t boot. So I say fuck it, pop an old 30gb hard drive in to the notebook, load windows on it so I have a means to back up my original notebook harddrive onto my 300gb external drive. I cue that up for copying and go to bed.
I wake up only to find that my 300gb external drive died in the process. Died-died. Dead. Gonzo. I don’t mind that a lot of it is gone. Software, Movies, Tv shows, those things are replaceable. Recorded song ideas, old photos dating back to 2000, home videos, these are the things that have disappeared forever.
So I figure I’ll cheer my self up with a new 500gb SATA external hard drive. I figure I need something to backup stuff onto anyways. I also purchase a USB Hard Disk adapter, one that can read multiple kinds of drives, notebook drives, desktop drives, SATA, IDE, whatever. I get home and plug that into my USB port.
Zap.
Now it was I that was staring blankly at my computer.
It won’t turn on, now. I figure I got some shoddy peripheral that overloaded my motherboard or something. It powers on, but nobodies home. The BIOS won’t even boot up. It’s quite upsetting since I live on my computer.
But liberating too. I’ve been thinking lately that my love for computers and the internet is more of an addiction than anything. I was thinking I needed to cut back if I were to go back to Toronto and try to accomplish great thigns. I was thinking I’ll need the time off from technology and constant connectivity.
We’ll see.
August 25th, 2008 | Life | No comments
