| My throat hurts from screaming, and it's only 2pm |
 My throat hurts from screaming, and it's only 2pm
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Aug. 7th, 2009 @ 02:18 pm 
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So, first I think something's going weird with my 500GB external hard drive. Computer struggles to recognise it. I finally get it to see the damn thing, and I think, okay, just in case, because I've had some trouble disconnecting that drive a couple of times, I'll copy it all off to my 1TB external hard drive, then reformat it.
(I use external hard drives for bulk data storage, because they're relatively cheap and incredibly convenient for storage and access. Non-critical data is kept on one, critical data is backed up to two and also periodically backed up to CD or DVD, because I was raised to be paranoid about backups.)
I plug in my 1TB drive.
Computer struggles to recognise that.
Later, it also struggles to recognise my USB-connected printer.
Sooo, apparently, in addition to the sound hardware issues, the USB ports are suddenly fucked too.
And yet, my anti-virus software is up to date, and all that. And tech support says the sound drivers are probably a hardware issue.
*gives up on trying to get the printer to work* Awesome. I bought a b&w laser printer specficially for printing text documents, as it's preferable in a range of ways and also cheaper. But I can't get my fucking computer to connect to the fucking printer, so I'll have to go with my inkjet, which is wireless.
I am currently in the process of copying my C:\ drive to my 1TB external wholesale. When that's done, I'll do D:\, and then, at least, I'll be sure my data is backed up when I have to take my fucking computer to the fucking service centre, which is in fucking Morley, and give it to some tech to fix.
Because it's under warranty, so they will fix my computer or they will REPLACE the fucking thing, and I? Am DONE CARING. I have an essay to write.
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