When Your Computer Gives Up
By re08dz
@re08dz (1941)
Australia
August 13, 2007 10:08pm CST
About this time last week I went to turn my computer on only to basically realise that it was never going to work for me again. Something, somewhere had decided to just stop working after much yelling and swearing then taking it in to the computer shop we came to the sad conclusion that the hardrive and pretty much blown up or fried itself etc and all was lost.
Which basically brings me to the reason for this post - no matter how many times you're told to back things up, or how many times you think to yourself I'll save all that stuff next time I'm on the computer - don't wait - do it regularly.
I lost all my stuff, had no backups of anything and it's taken me this long just to get a start on finding the links to some of my bookmarks etc - that of course doesn't count the things like the photos I'd just taken off my camera and put on my computer -ready for me to save to disc, and then deleted off my camera.
You never really realise how much you rely on your computer or how much you actually have on one until you can't have it anymore :-)
Thankfully though a lot of my articles etc that I'd written I can find again online so I'm not totally back to square one.
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
14 Aug 07
My computer is 8 years old. You can imagine the sorts of things I've lost over the years as I've been through about 3 hard drives, completely re-did the computer like new about 5 or 6 times and I've even gotten a completely new motherboard. What I didn't save on floppy disks (what? who uses them) I'd lost once or twice.
These days...as my computer sometimes shuts down for no reason whatsoever, blacks out for a little while, freezes and all sorts of other things because it's basically ancient... I have two hard drives. One with the computer programs and software and such on it. One with all of "My" documents. This way, if the hard drive craps out or you get a virus or whatever, the hard drive with your computer software is damaged and not your stuff.
If the hard drive with your stuff craps out you can usually save it through the other hard drive. It's a nice thing.
But it is always best to save save save!
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
15 Aug 07
When my computer gives up I have a backup. It's inconvenient, and it still runs Windows 98, but it's better than nothing. It's slow as anything and it's not a laptop, but again, it's better than nothing. I can still do the basics on that computer.
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@keepermykitty (2573)
• Canada
31 Aug 07
Sorry to hear that , its sad how quick these things happen ...
@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
15 Aug 07
This has happened to me several times and I feel like screaming every time. I have lost so many things like my bookmarks, folders and articles I have written. I now have a printer and will be printing all my stuff out as soon as I get printing paper. :)
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