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How to spoil your own Christmas without even trying
4 years ago
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Don't back up your laptop before taking it with you ... (more on that in a bit)
Visit parents that believe in letting their three-year-old scream all the time ... (always carry earplugs!)
Always confirm that your laptop has entered hibernate mode before putting it in its padded travel bag! (yeah ...)
Yeah, it never shut down, so it sat in a sealed bag and cooked for a couple of hours. (was still cooking when I got home and took it out of the bag. Wasn't hot enough to burn me, but far hotter than it should ever get.
It did come back up after cooling down - to wondering where the hard drive might be (you can hear the heads clicking around, but that's about it. Oh, and the power/battery status light was doing a pattern I'd never seen before, seems the heat cooked the battery a bit as well. (found this out when I swapped out the boot drive and the battery/plug icon says: "Consider replacing your battery"!)
By some luck of the draw (or those Alien laptops are really built) the rest of the system seems to be working (typing this on it now in fact.)
Just a few months of 'stuff' gone (backup backup backup you dumbarse!) so I'll get another drive and battery and see about getting me arse back in a forward gear.
Hope the rest of you have better Christmas' and happy new years - or it that nude deers?
Visit parents that believe in letting their three-year-old scream all the time ... (always carry earplugs!)
Always confirm that your laptop has entered hibernate mode before putting it in its padded travel bag! (yeah ...)
Yeah, it never shut down, so it sat in a sealed bag and cooked for a couple of hours. (was still cooking when I got home and took it out of the bag. Wasn't hot enough to burn me, but far hotter than it should ever get.
It did come back up after cooling down - to wondering where the hard drive might be (you can hear the heads clicking around, but that's about it. Oh, and the power/battery status light was doing a pattern I'd never seen before, seems the heat cooked the battery a bit as well. (found this out when I swapped out the boot drive and the battery/plug icon says: "Consider replacing your battery"!)
By some luck of the draw (or those Alien laptops are really built) the rest of the system seems to be working (typing this on it now in fact.)
Just a few months of 'stuff' gone (backup backup backup you dumbarse!) so I'll get another drive and battery and see about getting me arse back in a forward gear.
Hope the rest of you have better Christmas' and happy new years - or it that nude deers?
It is supposed to be off by default on laptops, but it’s possible.
(S.O.S. = Save Often Stupid)
Im gilty of this, but i did it with a 4tb network storage system power failure. On raided driver. Lost a few years of stuff
Get an SSD for it next time, might survive better, as SSDs have thermal protection / shutdown.
Many thanks again for the little beast, I'll try to take better care of it!
You MIGHT still be able to recover the data.
I had platter drives lock and freed them up with a little percussion maintenance they lasted long enough for me to clone the drive (I set it on a flat padded surface and gave the side of the body a firm knock with a small mallet, it worked, I've also had one where I banged the drive against a wooden surface).
The ONLY drives I haven't recovered were fatally dead, one impersonated a grenade the tower (destroyed said machine and the only survivor was the second drive), another other started spinning faster and faster and started vibrating loudly enough for me to turn the machine off before anything more happened... A little "forensic examination" showed part of the platter broke off in its housing... imagine what would have happened if I didn't shut the machine down... (grenade#2)
Thankfully, all my critical data is stored on multiple drives, my phone and cloud, everything else is replacable...
Like you, the worst I would lose is a month or so of the not so critical stuff
Like last time I'm kicking myself for not having updated my silly story - so FA would have been holding a 'backup' for me!
Replacement bits should be in tomorrow and I'll see if I can remember what I'd added/changed since then.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44088812/
Will be what we're working off of ...