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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #60 on: October 02, 2009, 11:22:12 AM »
Last night, my hard disk crashed, so I'll be without a computer for a week or so. When that happened, I was ready to scream or cry or something. Hopefully this is now the climax of things that have not been going well recently (trying to help a friend out of his depression, not sleeping, losing my mp3-player), because I am not sure how much more I can take before I go crazy.

I ended up watching two episodes of Buffy last night, because I couldn't even call any of the people I wanted to call to vent: my parents are still in the USA, my brother is on business in Florence, friend A is in London, and I knew that friends B and C were on a date. And I couldn't even tell you lovely people....


Sorry to hear this.  Especially about the lost mp3 player.  That would really bug me.  Of course you won't read this reply for a week!  :(
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #61 on: October 02, 2009, 03:15:55 PM »
Last night, my hard disk crashed, so I'll be without a computer for a week or so. When that happened, I was ready to scream or cry or something. Hopefully this is now the climax of things that have not been going well recently (trying to help a friend out of his depression, not sleeping, losing my mp3-player), because I am not sure how much more I can take before I go crazy.

I ended up watching two episodes of Buffy last night, because I couldn't even call any of the people I wanted to call to vent: my parents are still in the USA, my brother is on business in Florence, friend A is in London, and I knew that friends B and C were on a date. And I couldn't even tell you lovely people....

I don't get what you are complaining about, you got a perfect excuse to watch two episodes of Buffy.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #62 on: October 02, 2009, 03:26:08 PM »
Last night, my hard disk crashed, so I'll be without a computer for a week or so. When that happened, I was ready to scream or cry or something. Hopefully this is now the climax of things that have not been going well recently (trying to help a friend out of his depression, not sleeping, losing my mp3-player), because I am not sure how much more I can take before I go crazy.

I ended up watching two episodes of Buffy last night, because I couldn't even call any of the people I wanted to call to vent: my parents are still in the USA, my brother is on business in Florence, friend A is in London, and I knew that friends B and C were on a date. And I couldn't even tell you lovely people....


So sorry, Em. Hoping things take an upturn soon.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #63 on: October 04, 2009, 10:19:24 AM »
Last night, my hard disk crashed, so I'll be without a computer for a week or so. When that happened, I was ready to scream or cry or something. Hopefully this is now the climax of things that have not been going well recently (trying to help a friend out of his depression, not sleeping, losing my mp3-player), because I am not sure how much more I can take before I go crazy.

I ended up watching two episodes of Buffy last night, because I couldn't even call any of the people I wanted to call to vent: my parents are still in the USA, my brother is on business in Florence, friend A is in London, and I knew that friends B and C were on a date. And I couldn't even tell you lovely people....


 :( :( :(. hope things get better.
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #64 on: October 05, 2009, 03:09:58 AM »
Thank you everyone! Things are looking up - I spent most of the weekend sleeping and watching films, I'm getting myself a new mp3-player today, my new hard disk is going to arrive tomorrow, so my computer should be up and running again by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. No idea yet if my data can be saved, though.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #65 on: October 05, 2009, 08:42:26 AM »
Thank you everyone! Things are looking up - I spent most of the weekend sleeping and watching films, I'm getting myself a new mp3-player today, my new hard disk is going to arrive tomorrow, so my computer should be up and running again by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. No idea yet if my data can be saved, though.

There are companies that can usually retrieve data from damaged HDs but they are kind of expensive (and it depends on the size of the HD) is it a work thing?

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #66 on: October 05, 2009, 08:53:52 AM »
Thank you everyone! Things are looking up - I spent most of the weekend sleeping and watching films, I'm getting myself a new mp3-player today, my new hard disk is going to arrive tomorrow, so my computer should be up and running again by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. No idea yet if my data can be saved, though.

There are companies that can usually retrieve data from damaged HDs but they are kind of expensive (and it depends on the size of the HD) is it a work thing?

No, it's not a work thing, so the expense of professional data retrieval would definitely be an issue. I'm going to have a friend try and help me by connecting the HD to a Linux system to see if I can access the data that way, but if that doesn't work, I'll just have to admit defeat. There's nothing absolutely vital on it, just plenty of private stuff that I'd hate to lose (pictures, e-mails, word docs etc.).

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #67 on: October 05, 2009, 12:09:02 PM »
Thank you everyone! Things are looking up - I spent most of the weekend sleeping and watching films, I'm getting myself a new mp3-player today, my new hard disk is going to arrive tomorrow, so my computer should be up and running again by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. No idea yet if my data can be saved, though.
I wish my computer would crash.  :P

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #68 on: October 05, 2009, 12:18:04 PM »
Thank you everyone! Things are looking up - I spent most of the weekend sleeping and watching films, I'm getting myself a new mp3-player today, my new hard disk is going to arrive tomorrow, so my computer should be up and running again by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.

Great to hear!  :)

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #69 on: October 05, 2009, 05:09:00 PM »
Hopefully worm and Thor and Tequila and ses and chesterfilms and VmSoze and karlwinslow and ElectricOtter and whoever else start posting like crazy and you don't even notice I'm gone.

I'm gonna go ahead and take credit for this.

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