Well, isn't that just perfect...
Saturday, December 19th, 2009 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniMy desktop has stopped. Just stopped. I had opened my mail program, which downloaded the mail, reporting that some idiot wanted an acknowledgment that I had received hisorher email...then the whole machine just locked up and -- quit. I couldn't even control-alt-del out of it, I had to hit the off button.
Reported at length in case there's a fun new virus out there that's deployed with the pop-up of a return receipt box.
Anyhow, the machine won't come up, and every! single! word! that I had written today is gone, and I am...beyond sick.
Those of you expecting email from me -- it'll be an undetermined while. I have most of the book backed up to dropbox and have gotten it down to The Leewit. Not today's work of course; I'll have to totally rewrite that from the ground up.
*cries*
Reported at length in case there's a fun new virus out there that's deployed with the pop-up of a return receipt box.
Anyhow, the machine won't come up, and every! single! word! that I had written today is gone, and I am...beyond sick.
Those of you expecting email from me -- it'll be an undetermined while. I have most of the book backed up to dropbox and have gotten it down to The Leewit. Not today's work of course; I'll have to totally rewrite that from the ground up.
*cries*
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Date: 2009-12-19 11:49 pm (UTC)don't despair
Date: 2009-12-19 11:59 pm (UTC)(Because usually multiple things do not fail together. And if your hard drive had failed, the machine would come on and give you an error about the hard drive. Since that's not the case, the hard drive is probably OK.)
So the hard drive can probably be put in another machine, or read with an IDE/USB adapter, etc.
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Date: 2009-12-20 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 12:15 am (UTC)Melinda from Australia
Suggestion
Date: 2009-12-20 12:16 am (UTC)1) hold down the "power on" button for a minimum of 10 seconds
2) connect the power (but do not insert the battery) and try to boot up. If that works, shut down normally, re-insert the battery and power on again.
It actually worked for me - however I have a totally different kind of device... it's worth a try though.
Good luck!
caution
Date: 2009-12-20 12:34 am (UTC)Some of it was very custom software written by us. And he's still pissed as everything at HP because they didn't warn him to disconnect any extra drives before the restore.
Remember we get to pull the plug
Date: 2009-12-20 12:41 am (UTC)Doesn't solve any problems but can make you feel better.
That being said actually turning off the power supply, and disconnecting the back up power supply if any just might work. Wait a bit and reconnect.
A similar incident with my desktop got cured that way. And it couldn't hurt to try.
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Date: 2009-12-20 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 03:39 am (UTC)In a real pinch, you can buy a USB drive dock for $50 or less, pull the drive from your desktop unit, put it in the dock, and then access the drive from a functioning machine. If the drive isn't toast, that will allow you to recover all of today's work, as well as any other vital, unbacked up docs.
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Date: 2009-12-20 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-20 04:23 am (UTC)