Keeee-rash!
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My Windows program got corrupted somehow, (a mortal sin?) and I just got my computer back. It just kept locking up and then I got the "black screen of death." Unfortunately, opening in "safe mode" or using a "restore point" was not possible.
I guess most of my data is OK because the hard drive and memory tested OK. And I had my "My Documents" backed up. But I haven't contacted my back up service (Qwest) to see if they really did it. Holding my breath, mostly on my genealogical stuff that I have been collecting for 35 years.
What they had to do was install a second hard drive and now I have to transfer my documents to the new drive. Not all were saved it seems, but I can't tell until I look at each directory.
I guess I'll just transfer only when I need to, pending contact with Qwest probably not til Monday.
And now my DVD drive door won't open so I can't re-install my major programs like Word and Outlook.
So I have to take the computer back this morning to have them fix that; they must have messed it up when they installed the new hard drive.
This is the first really major loss that I have had in 20+ years of having a computer. So I've been lucky.
My Windows program got corrupted somehow, (a mortal sin?) and I just got my computer back. It just kept locking up and then I got the "black screen of death." Unfortunately, opening in "safe mode" or using a "restore point" was not possible.
I guess most of my data is OK because the hard drive and memory tested OK. And I had my "My Documents" backed up. But I haven't contacted my back up service (Qwest) to see if they really did it. Holding my breath, mostly on my genealogical stuff that I have been collecting for 35 years.
What they had to do was install a second hard drive and now I have to transfer my documents to the new drive. Not all were saved it seems, but I can't tell until I look at each directory.
I guess I'll just transfer only when I need to, pending contact with Qwest probably not til Monday.
And now my DVD drive door won't open so I can't re-install my major programs like Word and Outlook.
So I have to take the computer back this morning to have them fix that; they must have messed it up when they installed the new hard drive.
This is the first really major loss that I have had in 20+ years of having a computer. So I've been lucky.
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posted by Ray from MN @ 9:04 AM -Permalink
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2 Comments:
At 5:07 PM,
Anonymous said…
You have been very lucky to have gone 20 years without a data loss. I have seen grown men cry over years of lost work gone forever. All computers will eventually fail. It is in their nature.
At 5:20 PM,
Ray from MN said…
Well, I've had some data loss, some due to my stupidity and deleting things that I shouldn't have.
And once I did get hit with a virus because I responded to a message that I shouldn't have responded to. But all I lost was old messages. Some of which my psyche mourned, but I'm a packrat and I almost never delete old messages. But I almost never look at them either.
I'll know the real damage when I talke to Qwest tomorrow about my backups. My old hard drive has lots of data on it but my genealogy program that I have been working on for 35 years better be backed up because the three backups I had saved on the computer are fried.
So was my Photoshop Elements.
All I saved with Qwest was documents. I haven't heard of any bad experience with them so I expect it will all be there. And that will save me a ton of work I hope with Outlook. I do have my contacts. But pst files always give me grief.
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