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computer death
14 years ago
so.... I guess sporadically downloading shit from all over the place into an over-filled laptop with an expired virus protection is probably not the best long-term idea to keep your computer healthy.
needless to say, I was a bit surprised and distressed when my computer started acting funky.
I attempted to clear it up, restarted and lo and behold; windows does not start and the screen fills with cryptic flashing letters and numbers.
kind of like matrix, just dumber.
cursing and some tears later, I manage to find a linux boot disc that I only have thanks to
Br4wk as he saved me from my last devastating computer-fail.
managing to boot the computer, I spent 3 hours grumbling and cursing at the fact that I can't work around simple shit like write-only and the inability to copy files and create folders on my otherwise seemingly intact drives.
finding out what I was doing wrong, I have spent another 3 hours formatting my loose HDD to a gritty old FAT32 file system, in order to charm Linux with it, so I can get my damn files off the laptop in order to recover/format/re-install it.
the damn thing needed it anyway, but going out with a terrible virus-bang isn't something that will make me feel any good.
formatting is still on and I have many painful hours of copying, fixing and installing ahead of me.
whine, whine, rage, rage.
it's now 05.35 in the morning and I'm unsure if I'll be able to sleep, but I think I have to try.
gladly, I have this shitty and old and rather empty computer to sustain me while I'm fixing the laptop, without it, I'd be in deeper shit.
keep your anti-virus on. updated and vigilant.
and don't download... everything... all the time.
or something like that.
needless to say, I was a bit surprised and distressed when my computer started acting funky.
I attempted to clear it up, restarted and lo and behold; windows does not start and the screen fills with cryptic flashing letters and numbers.
kind of like matrix, just dumber.
cursing and some tears later, I manage to find a linux boot disc that I only have thanks to
Br4wk as he saved me from my last devastating computer-fail.managing to boot the computer, I spent 3 hours grumbling and cursing at the fact that I can't work around simple shit like write-only and the inability to copy files and create folders on my otherwise seemingly intact drives.
finding out what I was doing wrong, I have spent another 3 hours formatting my loose HDD to a gritty old FAT32 file system, in order to charm Linux with it, so I can get my damn files off the laptop in order to recover/format/re-install it.
the damn thing needed it anyway, but going out with a terrible virus-bang isn't something that will make me feel any good.
formatting is still on and I have many painful hours of copying, fixing and installing ahead of me.
whine, whine, rage, rage.
it's now 05.35 in the morning and I'm unsure if I'll be able to sleep, but I think I have to try.
gladly, I have this shitty and old and rather empty computer to sustain me while I'm fixing the laptop, without it, I'd be in deeper shit.
keep your anti-virus on. updated and vigilant.
and don't download... everything... all the time.
or something like that.
Best of luck with copying your stuff back...make sure though you have a up-to-date virus protection going before you copy back your files - might still be some malicious code stuck to the stuff you backed up. Always gotta keep in mind that it's very unlikely viruses for DOS/Windows will work in a Linux environment...
If anything fails for a good scanner, try Microsoft Security Essentials... it works rather well and is free of charge if you own a legit copy of Windoze...
If there's anything else you might need a hint or a little help on, just drop me a line or two via e-mail, MSN or FA note..
Cheers,
~br4wk
at least hoping to get a personal opinion about it.
protecting myself with moar antivirus and stuff now, I guess it takes some playing with fire and getting burned to learn.
I know you're here for me with my computer troubles, feelsgoodman
I'm not the best of being around myself, but hey... times will change soon I suppose.
thanks again.
*goes to battle win7 options and find little programs like winrar*
Win7 is actually quite decent IMO, a few new concepts innit which all work out nicely in reality though. Just a shame most of the ideas have been copy-pasta'd straight over from the MacOS X with a bit of Windows corporate identity retouche.
Still, all of those are good ideas, so not going to complain about copying in this case - though it's a bit dreadful for a company with a revenue of 59 billion dollars... *snicker*
As for the trouble thing, I'll be happy to oblige - when I'm doing stuff like that 40-50 hours a week for pay, one two or three without can't really hurt...
Cheers,
~br4wk