My PC took a crap on me yesterday afternoon. I turned it on in the morning, and it took like 30 minutes to start up, and was freezing all throughout the day. I ran SpyBot, and restarted. Well, then - PeeCee said "Windows failed to start." Told me that a system config file was missing, and to run my windows installation CD and repair it. Did that, didn't work. T_T
My PC is totally unusable right now, and I have no clue what I can do. Right now, I am on my crappy laptop I use for classes, and I can log in to SL, and view it as a slideshow.
I'm extremely pissed off, for several reasons. First, I was planning a huge release tomorrow with my free AO, and 3 pose sets. Can't do that. Second, if my PC is doomed, I have lost all my ad templates, and all my backup poses, and EVERYTHING. I'm totally ticked, and I can't do anything about it.
I will probably be spending lot of time logged into RL, and I'm sure me and Final Fantasy: Crisis Core will become best friends again. I can't move around in SL on this laptop, so I really can't do anything. I can't build, can't walk, can't shop... really, what is there to do? I can probably try to organize inventory, but... blech.
I will still be logging in in the evenings, to see Kagic - but I think that really might be it. I felt so bad for Kagic last night, I can't go anywhere, so he had to stay home with me. XD *Sigh* Sorry Kagic, we might be staying home quite often for the near future T_T
BTW. If anyone wants the free AO I was going to release, send me an IM or notecard, or something, and Ill send it to you... since I can't release it like I wanted to. TT_TT
July 22, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Oh noes!!
3 things it probably is: either your hard drive is failing, or your windows installation is FUBARed, or a virus/spyware. All hope is not lost!
Have you noticed any strange sounds coming from your hard drive?? If so your hard drive could be failing, but you could still get your important files if it's not completely dead. But I would think this least likely, at least less than the other 2 options..
More likely is that the windows installation is fubared. Is it Vista or XP? I know that you can "reinstall" XP on top of itself without completely erase your hard drive first. But I'm not sure about Vista.You can also try booting into safe mode and see how it acts.
Or it could be virus/spyware. My boyfriend says that spybot is bad, to use adaware. To be honest I'm almost 100% Mac now so I dont have to worry about viruses/spyware so my knowledge is a bit behind in this area.
July 22, 2008 at 6:33 PM
/me cries.
I haven't really noticed sounds, but when I'm using the PC, I usually have headphones on, so I can't hear anything at all XD
PC has Vista (which is the biggest mistake I've ever made -.-) and I did try the "repair" option with the installation CD - it didn't even register my hard drive, I guess. It told me to pick a drive to repair, but it didn't list it. O.o; Tried booting in Safe Mode too, got the same error TT_TT
Good to know spybot is bad - I can assure you I'll never use it ever again XD
I do plan on calling around come computer repair places tomorrow, hopefully they won't cost too much. Really, if I can get my ad templates and pose backups off that hard drive and on to a safer computer, I would be so much happier. TT_TT
It really, really, sucks... and I hope someone would be able to fix it... without dipping into my college book fund for next semester too much. XD
July 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM
:( sorry. *hug*
July 22, 2008 at 9:01 PM
/me cries together with Sai
I hate PC problems!! Arrggh. I hope you won't lose your stuff - that would be terrible :( One of the things I did was to partition my hard drive. I put all the program files (Windows, MS Office, etc) in C: and everything else (My Documents, My Pictures, etc) in D:. That way, if I ever need to reinstall Windows, I can possibly save all my data. No guarantees, of course -_-
There is document recovery software that could help you recover your stuff even if you had to reformat. I don't know if it's expensive, or how effective it is, but I know it exists. But let's hope you won't have to resort to that! *hugs*
Thanks sooooo much for the AO and the piano! The poses are so cute! XD I'm trying to figure out how to get the hover text off the piano... man, I need to learn LSL :P
July 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Hmmmm....
You can pull your hard drive out of your computer and hook it up to another desktop computer (anyone else in your house have a desktop?) as a second hard drive (not the C drive but another drive), being sure NOT to reformat, and you should be able see/view all your files just like it was a regular hard drive. You could then quickly copy your important files off to the other computer and back them up/burn them onto dvd so you have those, just in case. IF when you do this you have real trouble getting the hard drive to show up in the 2nd computer then definitely it's a hard drive problem. But if you don't have any trouble with accessing your hard drive in this way, pull off all your important files, hook it back up to your computer and do a clean install of Vista overwriting everything.
That's the first steps I would take, and they are free! (except you do need someone else's desktop and the knowledge of how to hook up a hard drive)
July 23, 2008 at 1:21 PM
I just took my PeeCee and the spare computer downstairs and opened them all up, rolled up my sleeves to install PeeCee's hard drive to the spare... Then I realized, I have NO clue what I'm doing XD
I currently have two hard drives in PeeCee, so if the hard drive is the issue, I can probably hook up the other one, which I used for storing anime episodes. So, I'm not too worried if the hard drive is going out (though, I NEED those 3 ad templates, at least TT_TT)
I did talk to someone who used to work in computer repair, and she said they cost from $140USD to $140USD to fix. TT_TT
Looks like, I really have no choice but to call someone and get it fixed professionally.
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