Daily Clerks

It’s been a while since I’ve updated and after this post, it will be a while longer, until I can get my act together. Here’s a quick rundown.

Sunday night. Laptop got very slow. I mean crawling. Any of you that know me, knows that my laptop is pretty much my life. I have everything on there. Business stuff. Personal stuff. And of course pictures. All of my pictures. Especially from Europe and Korea and my brothers wedding.

Monday morning. Laptop is officially dead. Tried to recover everything using Norton Ghost. Doesn’t work. Began to reinstall windows. Left for work.

Monday night. Error. Unable to find some crap. Tried to reinstall windows again. Full format. Took 4 hours to format an 80gb drive. No good.

Tuesday morning. Format complete. Tried to recover again. No dice.

Tuesday afternoon. Left work early. Began tedious process of formatting again, this time installing windows and trying to recover from there hoping to get the data structures up. 4 hours later. Kind of worked. Found a good copy of the norton ghost image in the recycle bin of my external hard drive. Thank goodness for that! Pulled necessary data, like outlook files, images and biz docs. Dumped onto secondary machine. Rebooted laptop. Received this great message upon restart. “imminent hard disk failure. back up your info and replace hard drive. Press F1 to continue.” I press F1…10 minutes later. Still nothing. Hard drive basically died.

Wednesday. Dammit! Dammit! Took the laptop to bestbuy for repairs. Won’t have it back for a few weeks. Gave them a laundry list of crap to replace, hard drive, screen, speakers, heat sink, fans, and the dvd drive. Hopefully they replace all of those things and it will be like getting a brand new laptop. But dang, 3 weeks without my laptop.

Since the only real machine I’ll have to work off of is my work comp, posts will be few and far between.

Peace out!

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