Crash Boom Bang
Feb. 24th, 2007 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teleidoplexUh...my computer just exploded.
No...seriously. I was working on The Possibility of Ways and there was a loud crack-crackle-crack, several flashes of orange and white light, a terrible smoky smell, and poof went the screen.
Luckily, I just ordered a new computer from Dell yesterday.
Luckily, I'm hoping my hard drive is far enough from the power supply that it won't have been fried and I can slave it to retrieve the data.
Luckily, even if I can't, my partner backed up the entirety of My Documents and everything less than a month ago, so I will have only lost about a months' worth of work and documents (although sadly that includes all of the work I've recently done on fics, publishable material, and grant proposals.)
Luckily, I do a lot of my writing by hand, so even if I do lose the last month I can probably reconstruct a lot of it from my journals.
Luckily, the only damage outside the computer tower seems to be the terror instilled in the Panda, who was sitting under my feet when the tower blew.
Sadly, if the hard drive is gone, then so are all the pictures I took at the most recent Changeling game.
All in all, I think I'm pretty lucky. Although, it means that my plan to update TPoW today has gone into the shitter. The Gods conspire against me.
No...seriously. I was working on The Possibility of Ways and there was a loud crack-crackle-crack, several flashes of orange and white light, a terrible smoky smell, and poof went the screen.
Luckily, I just ordered a new computer from Dell yesterday.
Luckily, I'm hoping my hard drive is far enough from the power supply that it won't have been fried and I can slave it to retrieve the data.
Luckily, even if I can't, my partner backed up the entirety of My Documents and everything less than a month ago, so I will have only lost about a months' worth of work and documents (although sadly that includes all of the work I've recently done on fics, publishable material, and grant proposals.)
Luckily, I do a lot of my writing by hand, so even if I do lose the last month I can probably reconstruct a lot of it from my journals.
Luckily, the only damage outside the computer tower seems to be the terror instilled in the Panda, who was sitting under my feet when the tower blew.
Sadly, if the hard drive is gone, then so are all the pictures I took at the most recent Changeling game.
All in all, I think I'm pretty lucky. Although, it means that my plan to update TPoW today has gone into the shitter. The Gods conspire against me.
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Date: 2007-02-24 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-24 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-24 07:43 pm (UTC)Well, at least you have backups. Backups good.
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Date: 2007-02-25 03:48 am (UTC)I ordered a new power supply for my laptop off of ebay and the powercord did the same thing...
I plugged it in, it fizzled, wires exploded, and it set my carpet on fire (just for a brief moment.)
That's some scary stuff...I hope you can get your docs recovered! <3
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Date: 2007-02-25 01:54 pm (UTC)