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Feb. 18th, 2019 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21 I am typing this on my phone, so no real formatting.
I am typing this on my phone because my laptop is a goner. It is an ex-laptop. Probably a large paperweight. Something happened like, Friday, and I spent the majority of the weekend trying to figure out why the hell my computer kept freezing up. Mention this to my dad last night at dinner and he told me to bring it over today, because he was off. Took us something like 6 hours to figure out that the install for Office was fucked. Removing it and reinstalling seemed to fix most of the issues, but Dad thought that running the ChkDisk would be a good idea, in case there was another disk issue we weren't finding.
Well, the computer just stopped at 12% of the check and repair scan. And then stayed there for over an hour. So, we did a hard restart and skipped the scan and let it boot up, whereupon it informed us there was a disk error and it needed to restart. Restarted it and got the Blue Screen of Death. Dad tried to fix it, but nothing was working- it just wouldn't restore.
Dad felt really bad- said he shouldn't have run the ChkDisk. I was like, well, what are you gonna do? Laptop is 5 years old, the display is starting to go, and I knew it was a matter of time. I was just hoping to get another year out of it, since I don't exactly have the money to replace it. The important stuff was backed up to Dropbox and Google photos, and the majority of what I have written in the past couple years is on Google Docs, so I probably didn't lose anything irreplaceable.
Short term plan is the library or going over to Mom and Dad's during the day to use Mom's laptop, which she doesn't need for work. But that's 30 minutes there and back, which makes the library a bit more attractive, since that's 5 minutes away. But, if I go out to the house, there's Netflix and I can watch a couple things I have been wanting to see, so there's that. And there's always my phone, which is fine for some stuff, anyway.
But seriously? I get to deal with this now? It could be worse, but I am still irked and displeased.
I am typing this on my phone because my laptop is a goner. It is an ex-laptop. Probably a large paperweight. Something happened like, Friday, and I spent the majority of the weekend trying to figure out why the hell my computer kept freezing up. Mention this to my dad last night at dinner and he told me to bring it over today, because he was off. Took us something like 6 hours to figure out that the install for Office was fucked. Removing it and reinstalling seemed to fix most of the issues, but Dad thought that running the ChkDisk would be a good idea, in case there was another disk issue we weren't finding.
Well, the computer just stopped at 12% of the check and repair scan. And then stayed there for over an hour. So, we did a hard restart and skipped the scan and let it boot up, whereupon it informed us there was a disk error and it needed to restart. Restarted it and got the Blue Screen of Death. Dad tried to fix it, but nothing was working- it just wouldn't restore.
Dad felt really bad- said he shouldn't have run the ChkDisk. I was like, well, what are you gonna do? Laptop is 5 years old, the display is starting to go, and I knew it was a matter of time. I was just hoping to get another year out of it, since I don't exactly have the money to replace it. The important stuff was backed up to Dropbox and Google photos, and the majority of what I have written in the past couple years is on Google Docs, so I probably didn't lose anything irreplaceable.
Short term plan is the library or going over to Mom and Dad's during the day to use Mom's laptop, which she doesn't need for work. But that's 30 minutes there and back, which makes the library a bit more attractive, since that's 5 minutes away. But, if I go out to the house, there's Netflix and I can watch a couple things I have been wanting to see, so there's that. And there's always my phone, which is fine for some stuff, anyway.
But seriously? I get to deal with this now? It could be worse, but I am still irked and displeased.