If I Am Incommunicado...

[liz_marcs]

My home computer is in the shop because of corrupted files that went way beyond my ability to fix. (Gah!)

I mean way, way beyond...

It could be worse, could've lost everything. As it is, I (at most) maybe lost 2 weeks' worth of data.

I'll be petting my 500 GB back-up drive now, as well as my 1 GB and 2 GB memory sticks. Between all my various back-ups for various things, I've ultimately lost nothing except a couple of MP3 files.

Ummmm, I have to go back to work now. No telling when my home computer will get sprung from "the joint" since I managed to do more damage trying to "fix it" than if I just brought it to Staples Tech Support right away.

*sigh*

At least they're running the diagnostics now.

Maybe I'll get it back tomorrow (I hope) since I figure while I'm there, I might as well upgrade the memory.

My LastFM Radio Station

Comments

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Yeeeowch, sympathies! Computer problems are never fun.

I should definitely invest in one of those backup drives myself. Just in case, y'know. I've got so much crap piled up on my two hard drives it isn't even funny. *grin*

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I wish your comp a speedy recovery.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Last night's backup session here involved copying the current project from this PC to a memory stick, a network drive (and from there to my laptop), the memory card in a PDA, and a CD-ROM which is now sitting in a media safe a couple of miles away. Ten minutes later I'd made eight changes to the main file...

[draconin.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. At least you DID backup! Way back when I first got into computers I had a hard disk fail with no backup and lost a database I'd been working on (3 months of data entered).

You learn very quickly don't you? :-)

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the computer! How rotten. Hope it's fixed soon.