Goodbye?
Well, I have been having a stroke of bad luck lately... About 5 days ago my Dell Insiron 4000 broke. (A disc read error occured) This could not of happened at any worse time when I have stuff to do for college, and especially after the Google Alg. The hard drive might be destroyed...
Right now, I am using someone elses computer until I either need to buy a new one or get the one I have fixed...
I tell you what, I missed hubpages a lot just in this short,and had a large amount of comments to approve lol..Does your computer accept a standard harddrive? They are cheap and easy to fit these days. If you are stuck with the makers hdd it may be a bit more expensive.
Maybe a spare computer from a friend or fellow hubber would do the job. I know I have always got a spare computer, and others may have too. I am a bit far away to offer you mine, but someone here may have a two or three year old computer laying around.
Good luck with it, and I hope you can get it sorted quickly.
There must be dozens of people like me who had at least 4 good working computers before I got flooded out and lost a couple.
In future you're going to shut it off properly aren't you.
This is what I have, a Dell Notebook sitting on my desk with an extra flat screen monitor attached to it. As well as the ADSL modem, Netgear switch (so I can share the internet connection with my wife) and a dual hard disk drive docking station.
One of the drives in there has ALL my data. Documents, files, images, saved photos, absolutely everything. Occasionally though I have a few things scattered on my desktop. But mostly it's shortcuts to folders of stuff I'm always working on that's sitting on that external HDD.
The other slot I use for swapping hard drives. Movies, TV episodes, MP3s, digital photos from the last 10 years, they each have their own hard drive. My wife has a similar set up with the dual hdd docking station.
I also have another hard drive just for backing up all my stuff that's on the other external hard drive. I do this once a week. Something I started doing near the start of last year when I dropped a hard drive and stuffed it. I lost about 4 weeks worth of work because I only backed my stuff up about once a month. We managed to retrieve some critical data, but there was a bunch of stuff I couldn't pull off of it. It was a costly lesson.
If anything is going to stuff up (other than dropping it) it will be the operating system on your computer. The data should be fine, provided nothing awry happens with a virus infection. And when I had a problem some 15 months ago with my notebook overheating (because it was doing far too much, and it was the middle of summer here, and I fixed the problem by getting a laptop cooling stand) at the time I wiped the whole hard drive and reinstalled everything. Which can take a huge chunk of time but I also have a Dell Netbook. So while I was doing the format and reinstallation, I could just plug my hard drives into my netbook and away I went. With barely a hiccup.
So have a contingency plan in place. I suggest getting a little netbook computer because for me, I just can't unplug my notebook and take it into the lounge room and sit it on my lap, there's far too many things plugged into it. But the netbook is small and compact and far more suitable for that sort of thing, as well as taking it out and about. I take my netbook to work and plug in a keyboard and monitor and access my files at home through Dropbox. (www.dropbox.com)
But another way that it's useful is that it's useful, if you don't have other computers in the house or want to bother your neighbour to use their computer, is when you do have a problem and your faulty computer is stopping you from getting online and finding out how to fix the problem, you can do all that on the netbook.
So it's a wise investment. I even went with the one with 16 gig internal flash drive, because I didn't need anything big, because I am accessing files via dropbox, or if needs be, by plugging in an external HDD. Also the flash drive is non-mechanical, therefore less likely to die the same death that a notebook will, and less likely to overheat when it's sitting on your lap.
Put it on your "Things To Buy With Money I Made From HubPages" list. That's how I bought mine back in August 2009.
Well, apparently, I had a virus!! But I have no idea how it could of prevented computer from booting up or prevent factory defualt settings...(which always worked in past)
I never seen any signs of viruses, athough I had no protection. There was a few instances, however, when a link in Googles results page lead to a virus, but I always shut computer off quickly. (embeded virus links I guess)
People that make viruses need to go to hell, and have their entrails spilled throughout the place!!!UPDATE
Laptop is fixed! Somebody was able to fix it for me. Still need to get some virus protection, but I have Norton free trail right now.
Hopefully, I don't have bad problems like this in the future. NO ONE SHOULD, VIRUSES SUCK!
Glad to be back at hubpages, youtube, and be able to do college work and etc... (you NEED a computer for college)I have been using AVG for more than 3 years now and I've not had one problem.
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