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Laptop Bricked...
a year ago
Just a heads up that, again, uploads will pause for a brief moment, due to a broken computer...
It's a hard disk failure, after a few days of troubleshooting, all signs point to either drive failure or an update causing it to brick itself...
Going to try to buy a new laptop or desktop some time in the coming days or weeks, depending on when I can get time off work to do so...
Nothing too major would be lost data wise...went a few months since my last backup, but since I haven't been able to draw, it's mostly just 'personally saved images' from browsing, a few videos and movies I can try to find again, and such...Although I'll need to double check my posted files since I've been uploading some older stuff...
I got a bit in my savings from this 7-Days-Weekly job, and lately had a surprise generous donation to my PayPal, so I don't need any money, just patience while I get a new rig and set things back up...
It's a hard disk failure, after a few days of troubleshooting, all signs point to either drive failure or an update causing it to brick itself...
Going to try to buy a new laptop or desktop some time in the coming days or weeks, depending on when I can get time off work to do so...
Nothing too major would be lost data wise...went a few months since my last backup, but since I haven't been able to draw, it's mostly just 'personally saved images' from browsing, a few videos and movies I can try to find again, and such...Although I'll need to double check my posted files since I've been uploading some older stuff...
I got a bit in my savings from this 7-Days-Weekly job, and lately had a surprise generous donation to my PayPal, so I don't need any money, just patience while I get a new rig and set things back up...
I don't know if this project extends all the way into Windows 10/11. Because I probably went looking in the days of XP. And if it is still around... it might now boot off of a memory stick, since CD drives may be a bit old fashioned for the latest PC models.
Still, like you said, most everything you had on it can be recovered elsewhere. So going to the bother of trying to save things from the drive may be rather useless. Granted, having options; Always a good thing.