Electonics Failure
posted by Jen | 7:39 PM
I'm having a bad week. Much of this badness has to do with electronics.
Tuesday night, I went into the control center for a sim, dutifully turning off my cell phone before entering the "no transmit zone". Five hours later I walked back out, and turned my cell phone back on. Nothing appeared on the screen. Hmmmm.... Turn off again and back on. Nothing. Dial my home number, and it rings. So, just the screen, apparently. Crap.
Wednesday morning, I get into work and turn on my computer. It freezes as it's loading Windows. I try again, and get the "Windows failed to start properly" screen. I try to boot normally, in my last sucessful configuration, and in safe mode. Nothing. I call the IT guys. It turns out (expectedly) that my hard drive has failed. They can't get anything off the disk, although they see that there's probably still data on it. If I want to try to get my data, I have to talk to some other people.
Today I talk to the other IT people. I'm told that they will only attempt to recover my data if I can "prove it's worth the money". So I spend several hours trying to list all the things I've done in the last six months that I'll lose if they don't help me. The 6 months is because I manually backed up my data before my computer got refreshed last spring. (Work also doesn't think that it's worth it to pay for backup services for us.)
One bit of good news... I took the battery and sim card out of my phone tonight, and it turned on. I put the sim card back in, and it seems to be functional again. I'd better never turn it off again.
Tuesday night, I went into the control center for a sim, dutifully turning off my cell phone before entering the "no transmit zone". Five hours later I walked back out, and turned my cell phone back on. Nothing appeared on the screen. Hmmmm.... Turn off again and back on. Nothing. Dial my home number, and it rings. So, just the screen, apparently. Crap.
Wednesday morning, I get into work and turn on my computer. It freezes as it's loading Windows. I try again, and get the "Windows failed to start properly" screen. I try to boot normally, in my last sucessful configuration, and in safe mode. Nothing. I call the IT guys. It turns out (expectedly) that my hard drive has failed. They can't get anything off the disk, although they see that there's probably still data on it. If I want to try to get my data, I have to talk to some other people.
Today I talk to the other IT people. I'm told that they will only attempt to recover my data if I can "prove it's worth the money". So I spend several hours trying to list all the things I've done in the last six months that I'll lose if they don't help me. The 6 months is because I manually backed up my data before my computer got refreshed last spring. (Work also doesn't think that it's worth it to pay for backup services for us.)
One bit of good news... I took the battery and sim card out of my phone tonight, and it turned on. I put the sim card back in, and it seems to be functional again. I'd better never turn it off again.
Labels: rocket science
1 Comments:
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Pulling my hair out over here because of the stupidity of the hard drive recovery / no backup process.
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