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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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.