We'll keep a light on for ya. Try and get a backup done STAT!

I see what you did there! Thanks! Got the backup done last night when I got the first warning.

aww hope you return quickly :(

I'm still here for the moment. I'm going to keep this thing running as long as it will, but I've had like 6 warnings and it crashed this morning first thing. Tried to self repair and couldn't. So I tried it one more time and it started reeeeeeeeealy sloooooowly, and is running ok for this stuff. I'm just happy I got a chance to send out a warning.
By the way I sent you a note. Please don't hate me! You'll know what I mean when you read it.

Time to get a new one then.

Yeah. This is a Toshiba and I've had nothing but trouble with it since I bought it. I think I'll go back to Dell.

Got 3 pieces of Hitachi myself...1T * 3...Big girl, big space!

I wouldn't mind a Tb. We'll see what happens.

Two of them belongs to my boyfriend. We use it to store movies on them...mostly. I have a bad habit of collecting cartoon series, which have an episode span not greater then 50 or so. Example: Swat Kats, or Lady Lovelylocks and the Pixietails...etc.

I has a bunch of movies and old tv shows on this one...plus all my regular stuff. I may just put a new hard drive in it though. The cheapest Dell I can find with windows 7 and the stuff I'd want is $1000. That's close to a thousand bucks more than I want to spend right now.

Dafaq? A 1Tbyte HDD costs around $50-75 here in Hungary. $1000 is robbery in bright daylight!

That was a whole new laptop with 500 GB hard drive. I'm not sure of the price of just a 1TB drive here but maybe about what you said. I was just saying I wouldn't mind having a terabyte. I'll probably just get a new 500 GB drive installed in this one this coming week. It's running right now but I'm getting warnings every 10 minutes and it is definitely failing.

Well... I wish, that it should hold together until the replacement HDD arrives and all data is transfered!

Thank you. <3 I shut it down yesterday morning. Then last night after 6 failed tries I got it up again and decided to leave it running till Monday morning or whenever I can get hold of the computer fixit place here and see about that. I just left windows media player playing music on mute all night and it's still going. I think it may keep on going. It seems like starting it up is the hardest thing for it. It works fine once it's up. I'd love to get all the data transferred, but I'm kinda pessimistic about it being possible. I've had bad luck with that in the past.

Do laptops have Batteries on their Motherboards? Maybe that went low...I'm just shooting at random here.

I'm not sure. I think so thought, but just for the clock function and the like. Anyway I got it back with a new hard drive today. Super fast work by a Canadian guy here in Mexico. So I'm up and running fine again.
>:3

Yay!

Bunny is so happy she could kiss a dragon!

Do it! (Even if my mouth to mouth is a bit salty tasting...)

*timidly approaches and gently presses her lips to your muzzle* (do dragons have lips?....and WHY is your mouth to mouth salty?)

We have a mouth, so we have lips too...Just my teeth are poking outward under it...DnD Blacks are nicknamed as Skull Dragons...
A DnD Black Dragon's natural breath weapon is a thick spray attack called Cone of Acid...the rest you can figure out.

EEEEeeeeeeeek! *decides to kiss you somewhere safer instead......maybe if I move lower to escape the cone of acid....*

*You've got caught in a Cone of Milk-spray* R34 Attack.

*tries to control the Cone of Milk spray by holding her mouth over it and swallowing as fast as it emerges*
(you're making me wish I knew something about DnD. I've never gamed at all...)

Well, that's easy to mend.

Step 1. Get IceWind Dale! (Or Baldur's Gate 1-2 but BG1 is harder, since it's not so evolved as BG2 or IWD)
Step 2. Install it!
Step 3. Play it whenever you want it!

I can guarantee a fantastic story from this games. IWD has less talking and more fighting. The game-play is also more linear, then in BG. Bg is at least a 50 times ,ore huge, then IWD, since it's not that linear. Where in IWD you get specific goals, and you aren't really strolling far away from the main quest, in BG you are forced to do side-quests. At one time, you need to collect 10,000 Gold (which is a ridiculously large sum in DnD) just to buy your way into the next chapter, and this will force you to do side quests or do a long quest-chain, which has that huge reward at it's end...IWD is focusing more of the fighting, a.k.a. you playing the game, but not forgets the epic storytelling. I urge you to give the game a try!

Just a few useful tips, if you try it:

You can PAUSE the game ANYTIME, pressing the SPACE key. That's how you control 6 characters at a time. It's comfortable, since you can analyze your situation, give commands to your units, and when all is set, you press SPACE again, and enjoy the carnage, which you planned out. This way, attacking any number of monsters with your 6-unit party becomes easily playable, which wouldn't be a case in real time. Trully a game-feature, that makes the game work!

When creating your 6 man party, be sure to have at least 1 tank, and 1 healer, and some magic damage dealing units, maybe a bow using one as well! There are fights, where magic isn't working against your foe, so muscles should be doing the talking. A mage is a source of carnage, since the fireball spell literally solves 80% of your monster problems. The spell Web, Entangle will hold your foe in place, and you can easily snipe them from afar with either dealing area damage with a spellcaster, or let your rouge's bow do the talking. The healer is a must. Your characters will be getting hurt, dieing maybe. A powerful healer can even resurrect them, if they are freshly killed. My party usually consisted out of a Warrior for tanking and close combat purposes, a rouge for detecting traps and sniping damage, or backstabbing, a priest to do the healing, buffing and even damaging (mostly undead), a druid to crowd control, heal, summon allied animals, and deal damage as well, a mage to deal powerful magic damage, and a six party member, which is your main character in BG while a freely chosen 6th member in IWD...I've picked a barbarian, for more tanking and melee damage dealing, since one tank can die by mistake...

Have fun!

That's a lot of info. I may give it a try, though as I said I've never been a gamer.

You can't be too old for playing...It won't hurt to try. I suspect at your age, games aren't that appealing, so I understand if you give it a slip...in that case watch some u2b video's from the game! IceWind Dale and Baldur's Gate is simply a good game, but the story is what makes them a gemstone among games!

And the dragons in it...There's aBlack Dragon in BG2, that your party encounters. the Black greets the party with: Food! Irenicus sent me food, finally!
You try to talk to sense into the beast: Hold, mighty beast! Let me...
The Black Dragon interrupts you instantly: Nizidramani'yt doesn't talk with the food!

Moments like these are making the game worth playing. When was the last time an enemy made a threat with only words, that foreshadowed your near demise with such certainty? That dragon knew power, and was not afraid to mock your party's strength. I really stopped before the fight began, and chuckled a lot on Nizidramani'yt manner of speaking. It was entertainment pure!

Can you give me a link or two to good ones to watch? I'm not at all sure of some of the references you use, like BG2. But I'd like to see what you're talking about.

And yeah. I'm not likely to take up any gaming at this point. Besides I just got a new 3D sculpting program to play with that is easy and promises to be lots of fun.

Will list some in a note.

Thanks! I got it. Now to check out the vids.

Nah you need to get an HP. I've had my HP desktop for three years and laptop for a full year without any troubles. The Desttop is 1TB and cost me $700 way back then with windows 7.

Can't go with a desktop. I live in a cabover camper half the year. My IT expert niece is a Dell girl and I had a Dell I liked fine, but I'll probly just patch this thing up at least till I get back in the states and it's easier to do this kind of stuff.

Looking forward to your return!

Thanks Carlos. Hopefully I'll be back soon with a better machine. I've hated this Toshiba from the first week I had it.

Eagerly awaiting your return.

I'm not quite gone. I'ma keep this thing running till it dies, now that I have it up. But that could be any time.

That song that goes "I will survive!" is brought to mind.

Oh dear. Well, here's hoping you can get it fixed and/or find a new one soon. And that the troublesome little thing will limp along as best it can for you 'til then, too!

I just gave my niece remote control of it and she set it to re-check itself and heal if possible. So I'm gonna have to turn it off here in a minute to let it try. wish me luck....

aww hope it lasts then so you stick around i need someone to stir up !! ^v^

Never fear...I'll be back even if you have to suffer without my caustic wit for a while.

ok hon !! ^v^

Good luck

Thank you!

*hugs*

*licks your nose*

*clings to you*

*purrs loudly*

Bunny still seems to be here. :)

I've found if I keep my comp running it stays running, so I'm just not letting it stop till it dies...or something. tomorrow I'll talk to the comp people here in PV and see what they say about getting a new hard drive installed. My niece is checking stuff out for me too. Meanwhile...I'll keep on keeping on till I have to stop.

Good luck!

Worked out beautifully!

*cuddles and sends happy thoughts*

Thanks love!!

I know the feeling. I'm surprised this pile of junk I'm using has lasted this long without blowing up in my face, hehe.

Hope you get back online soon
*bunnyhug*

Thanks, I'll try to be up and running good by next week.