AAAAHHHHHH! What a day I've had!!!! - Democratic Underground

EstimatedProphet

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Thu May-20-04 07:29 PM
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AAAAHHHHHH! What a day I've had!!!!

OK, I'm at work for about an hour this morning when my hard drive crashes for no reason. I spent the morning on the phone with tech support, to no avail. I tried running the drive as a slave off another identical computer, and it won't read, period. Dead. So, I spent the rest of the day trying to get my papers off of my email directories (fortunately almost everything I have been working on I emailed out to people so I have a record, because of course I didn't $@^#@$^ back anything up!), and at least got that squared away. Whew.
So I get home, and the new computer I ordered over the weekend is in. I get it set up, and, OF COURSE, it has a bad hard drive. Apparently I have some sort of anti-hard drive radiation or something. And of course Tiger Direct will only take it back in direct exchange, so I have to send the entire thing back, instead of just a hard drive.
Enough. I'm pissed.

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childslibrarian

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Thu May-20-04 07:33 PM
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1. Isn't technology wonderful?

As a librarian, I can relate to your "anti-hard drive" radiation completely....Let's face it, if cars ran this way, we would still be using horses...

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EstimatedProphet

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Thu May-20-04 07:47 PM
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2. No kidding

I shoulda known better than to hook it up tonight...

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many a good man

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Thu May-20-04 07:48 PM
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3. I had two bad ones in a row!

I bought one from CompUSA and finally figured out it was bad. Returned it and the replacement was bad, too. I would have doubted myself but the tester proved they were both defective. I thought the odds would be mighty slim two in a row would be bad, but there you have it. Guess I'm not the only one.

At work I scheduled XP's backup utility to backup my data directory to the network every night. Incremental each night, full on weekends. Trust no one. Definitely don't trust hard drives!

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childslibrarian

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Thu May-20-04 07:53 PM
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4. The man speaks words

of wisdom.. Do not ever trust a computer. Always back it up....

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Old and In the Way

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Thu May-20-04 07:59 PM
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5. Have an 80gig HD on my laptop and a 120Gig external back-up.

Edited on Thu May-20-04 08:00 PM by Old and In the Way

Good thing too. I had an ACOM ext HD STB, but luckily I had the laptop still going. Got a replacement in a hurry. I'd be dead without my datafiles.

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