The unending misery of computer trouble
Sep. 11th, 2004 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arysteiaSo... Back in the day I was a shameless Luddite. I sang the praises of the printed word, wrote letters in copperplate long after the email revolution started, and thought the internet was some kind of geek cult. A friend offered to show me how it worked and I laughed in his face. It just seemed so "Come up to my room and see my etchings".
I saw the error of my ways eventually, and took to the cult with all the fervour of a convert. I *adore* the internet. I spend massive amounts of time online. You probably do too if you're reading this. And it was a very exciting, happy day for me when I bought my new computer. It had specs even my geekboy cousin said were good, and to my girly eye it was silver and shiny. *love*
Six months ago it just died. Some sort of OS file missing, corrupt or invalid, according to the charming blue screen. No explanation was forthcoming from experts consulted. Apparently these things just happen. But it was only a year old and that seemed outrageous to me. Appliances should last longer. My chief misery was the fact that being new to this sort of horror, I didn't have anything backed up. Even the things every fool in the universe knows you're meant to have backed up, like thesis chapters. Strangely I wept more for the masterpieces of fiction, both original and fannish, which would never now see the light of day. Long story short, after excruciating heroic efforts, a friend managed to pull most of my files off the hard drive before rebuilding it.
A month ago something similar happened, but this time I suspected in my guilty heart it was my own fault. I'd noticed problems in the last couple of weeks that if I'd been more vigilant or alert would have implied virus-issues. I took it on the chin, blessed the fact that my last full back up was only a week old, and restored and reinstalled everything myself without harrassing my over worked friends. Installed and ran various new virus programmes as recommended by my ISP. All seemed well.
It did it again yesterday!
Which made me very happy indeed that all my latest fics have been posted already, and my academic scribblings are on a notepad in my handbag.
But I just can't take it anymore! Who do I speak to? What do I do? Surely this isn't normal? Can anyone offer me any suggestions at all??? Please... I realise I'm giving you little to work from, but I'll hand you my firstborn, write you any fic you desire, or just shout your name to the Heavens, if you can give me any pointers at all.
Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaaaave me!!!
I saw the error of my ways eventually, and took to the cult with all the fervour of a convert. I *adore* the internet. I spend massive amounts of time online. You probably do too if you're reading this. And it was a very exciting, happy day for me when I bought my new computer. It had specs even my geekboy cousin said were good, and to my girly eye it was silver and shiny. *love*
Six months ago it just died. Some sort of OS file missing, corrupt or invalid, according to the charming blue screen. No explanation was forthcoming from experts consulted. Apparently these things just happen. But it was only a year old and that seemed outrageous to me. Appliances should last longer. My chief misery was the fact that being new to this sort of horror, I didn't have anything backed up. Even the things every fool in the universe knows you're meant to have backed up, like thesis chapters. Strangely I wept more for the masterpieces of fiction, both original and fannish, which would never now see the light of day. Long story short, after excruciating heroic efforts, a friend managed to pull most of my files off the hard drive before rebuilding it.
A month ago something similar happened, but this time I suspected in my guilty heart it was my own fault. I'd noticed problems in the last couple of weeks that if I'd been more vigilant or alert would have implied virus-issues. I took it on the chin, blessed the fact that my last full back up was only a week old, and restored and reinstalled everything myself without harrassing my over worked friends. Installed and ran various new virus programmes as recommended by my ISP. All seemed well.
It did it again yesterday!
Which made me very happy indeed that all my latest fics have been posted already, and my academic scribblings are on a notepad in my handbag.
But I just can't take it anymore! Who do I speak to? What do I do? Surely this isn't normal? Can anyone offer me any suggestions at all??? Please... I realise I'm giving you little to work from, but I'll hand you my firstborn, write you any fic you desire, or just shout your name to the Heavens, if you can give me any pointers at all.
Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaaaave me!!!
