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I want to cry. (Actually, I already did)

xxk1nky
edited April 2009 in General
So, um, yeah. My laptop crashed 2 hours ago. Everything was on that laptop, dammit! And EVERYTHING is due this week. Holy fuck. I was working on a paper that was due tomorrow, had all my references ready, boom, crash! My fucking 15-page research proposal was on there, half of which I have backed up but my whole research design was on the laptop... And then I have another Health Science paper due for Wednesday, not started yet. But my 8-page Psychology paper was on my laptop too!!!!

My laptop's currently getting fixed right now but I have to wait a couple more hours. As long as my documents are retrieved, I will be fine. But if not, I'm pretty sure I won't be sleeping all week.

Fuck my life.

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  • DaNoobie
    edited November 2008
    O.O

    just went to email my friggin 369 crap to myself so I dont go through this.
    Hope it works out for you
  • Jimmy
    edited November 2008
    good luck, thats why i always back my stuff up on external harddrive, usb sticks, email myself and online storages

    you never know when she'll pull the plug on you
  • siuying
    edited November 2008
    that actually happened to me in second year.. right before english essay was due.. =( what's worse was that the techs were unable to recover my files.. so all my notes were gone too.. this was two weeks before finals.. it was a devastating semester.. =( so now i have everything backed up onto an external and save my papers in a memory stick..
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    haha that happened to me, spent like 6h on a CMPT assignment and when i went to upload it (30mins b4 due time which was at midnight) my pc fried
    it turned out the videocard fried which didnt let the whole thing power up, once i ripped out everything i didnt need it would make some fucked noise i then discovered my ram was fucked too so i just ripped out the HD poped it into another pc and recovered my assig and submitted it with like 10mins to spare haha

    as a side note, you should get an external hard drive enclosure in case ur lappy does fry (most often its the mobo that goes) and u can just rip out ur HD and pop it into case then usb it to another pc
    taking it in to a shop can be expensive for file recovery and in reality its not like they do that much....
  • xxk1nky
    edited November 2008
    I just received a call from the technician and my laptop is totally dunzo. HOWEVER, he was able to save this folder that contained 99% of all my school documents before my laptop hard drive went bye-bye so my ass just got saved.

    THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!

    Anywho, I gotta go pick that up. Hopefully all my files are still whole and saved and all. And now I know what I want for Christmas... new laptop! And external hard drive.

    Thanks guys!
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    ^ again given past exp its not the hard drives that fail on laptops its usually the mobo (motherboard) this is caused due to the laptops nature of being slim and having very poor ventilation thus it overheating
    make sure you get your laptop back as I'm sure there are a few components to rip out for parts to sell (ram, LCD, built in cards like wifi, bluetooth)
  • xxk1nky
    edited November 2008
    bufli;40982 said:
    ^ again given past exp its not the hard drives that fail on laptops its usually the mobo (motherboard) this is caused due to the laptops nature of being slim and having very poor ventilation thus it overheating
    make sure you get your laptop back as I'm sure there are a few components to rip out for parts to sell (ram, LCD, built in cards like wifi, bluetooth)
    I got it back but it's crashed... won't turn on anymore. RIP Laptop.

    Anyone got recommendations for a new laptop?! I'll only be using it for school (Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, etc.)
  • IVTIVT
    edited November 2008
    oh and always have more than one partition. I know it wouldn't help in this case, but keep your important stuff that can't be replaced on another partition. that way, if Windows fails, you just reformat C: without losing the data.
    keeping stuff in My Documents will lead to getting pwned
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    IVT;40984 said:
    oh and always have more than one partition. I know it wouldn't help in this case, but keep your important stuff that can't be replaced on another partition. that way, if Windows fails, you just reformat C: without losing the data.
    keeping stuff in My Documents will lead to getting pwned
    not really... if windows crashes u just need to take the HD out, pop it into another pc as a slave and u can access both partitions and recover files from anywhere...
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    xxk1nky;40983 said:
    I got it back but it's crashed... won't turn on anymore. RIP Laptop.

    Anyone got recommendations for a new laptop?! I'll only be using it for school (Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, etc.)
    for curiosity reasons what brand was your old one?

    from past exp i've found sony's are notorious for failures
    i have an ancient Toshiba & a new one both running strong thus leaving me to believe their a good brand :) even Dell uses components from Toshiba
    id also avoid HP laptops if i were you for ur next laptop i dont think any of my friends who own HP laptops said anything positive about them and one of my friends just died last week...
  • siuying
    edited November 2008
    yeah.. agree with bufli's comment on sony.. my first laptop was sony.. and let's just say during the first year of usage.. it spends more time with the techs than me.. =( and was certified right after the warranty expired... (damn sony).. =.="

    the one i'm using right now is the HP entertainment PC which I adore.. i accidentally dropped it once while going upstairs and thought it was a goner since it literally rolled down the stairs.. but it survived!! and this was about a year in.. right now it's hitting the 3ish-4 year landmark and they say that's about the average life span for laptops.. so i'm shopping around for a new one too.. =P right now i have my eyes on those ASUS Eee PCs..XD
  • NukeChem
    edited November 2008
    @xxk1nky: I breathed a sigh of relief when you wrote that the files were recovered! Thank goodness. *whew*

    Nothing quite compares to the sinking feeling you get when your computer won't turn on, or when it does, you realize your files all went kaput.

    Check out something like this laptop. It's web only and a refurb (problem: 90 day warranty instead of one-year), but the price is quite decent and it's not gonna be sluggish by any means. :)

    @siuying:

    Heh, I accidentally dropped my new Compaq laptop and thought "oh crap", but it's fired up fine since then and hasn't let me down. Whew! :) Mine was also a refurb, $399 at Future Shop, and quite light and portable. :)
  • hikin
    edited November 2008
    which tech did you take it to?

    also no laptop is perfect, i worked for geeksquad for a long time and to say it everyone eventually came back. except for the HP NC series. havent seen those back ever lol.
  • DaNoobie
    edited November 2008
    I'm gonna guess HP because my HP is a piece of crap
  • primexx
    edited November 2008
    and this, kids, is why you always backup your data.

    every retailer's putting stuff on sale now and they'll probably have better sales soon, wait till after exams and you can go shop around for a good deal.
  • Student0667
    edited November 2008
    Sorry to hear about this xxk1nky, good to hear that your manage to extract your data. Good luck on finding a new laptop and an USP Stick.
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    should also check out sites like:
    http://www.tigerdirect.ca/
    http://www.ncix.com
    http://www.anitec.ca/

    they can sometimes have better deals then big places like futureshop and bestbuy ;)

    dells are also not too bad either (kinda heavy though)
  • hikin
    edited November 2008
    wait till boxing day, lol i can safely say there will be alot of stuff on sale at bestbuy.

    as for ncix and anitec and a-power, if you dont like the laptop and want to return keep in mind there is a 15% restocking fee,
  • Shi2
    edited November 2008
    I think sony laptops are quite reliable. I have one that's from 9 yrs ago running on windows me and it's still going strong.

    It's definitely a good idea to back-up files since hard-drive recoveries can be very expensive and files are often not 100% recovered.
  • xxk1nky
    edited November 2008
    bufli;40986 said:
    for curiosity reasons what brand was your old one?
    It was a Toshiba laptop but it was quite old since my sister gave it to me when she got her MacBook. I had no problems till this happened.

    i_like_hiking: My friend's dad is a technician that literally lives right up the hill from me so I called him ASAP and luckily he was home. *phew*

    I'm definitely waiting til after exams and after Christmas. I've been looking into getting a MacBook for sometime and I'll probably have enough money after Christmas so we'll see!

    Thanks guys!
  • primexx
    edited November 2008
    xxk1nky;41001 said:
    It was a Toshiba laptop but it was quite old since my sister gave it to me when she got her MacBook. I had no problems till this happened.

    i_like_hiking: My friend's dad is a technician that literally lives right up the hill from me so I called him ASAP and luckily he was home. *phew*

    I'm definitely waiting til after exams and after Christmas. I've been looking into getting a MacBook for sometime and I'll probably have enough money after Christmas so we'll see!

    Thanks guys!
    oh noes! not another one turned to the dark side!!!

    well have fun being locked into job's reality distortion field for the rest of your life.
  • vonnie
    edited November 2008
    WOw, I can actually say that my comps haven't died on me before.
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    vonnie;41005 said:
    WOw, I can actually say that my comps haven't died on me before.
    don't jinx it lol
  • JayDub
    edited November 2008
    My mac has had more kernel panics this week than I have had BSODs with XP in my entire life.
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    PC or MAC their both gonna have issues ... i mean there will always be a lemon amongst them :P
  • Agentbob
    edited November 2008
    xxk1nky;41001 said:
    It was a Toshiba laptop but it was quite old since my sister gave it to me when she got her MacBook. I had no problems till this happened.

    i_like_hiking: My friend's dad is a technician that literally lives right up the hill from me so I called him ASAP and luckily he was home. *phew*

    I'm definitely waiting til after exams and after Christmas. I've been looking into getting a MacBook for sometime and I'll probably have enough money after Christmas so we'll see!

    Thanks guys!
    There's a new Macbook. One of my classmate has it and it looks kind of nice. However, there's this thing called Apple tax where anything that comes out of Steve Job's ass has a jacked up price tag because of that stupid Apple logo.
  • Broken Lizard
    edited November 2008
    primexx;41003 said:
    oh noes! not another one turned to the dark side!!!

    well have fun being locked into job's reality distortion field for the rest of your life.
    we really need to make a no primexx club
  • PhilBPhilB
    edited November 2008
    JayDub;41008 said:
    My mac has had more kernel panics this week than I have had BSODs with XP in my entire life.
    From what? My MacBook has never had a kernel panic, and I've been using it for over a year.

    Phil
  • NukeChem
    edited November 2008
    I'm amazed at how expensive MacBooks are, I mean my god, $1200 :omg:

    No thanks, I'll take Vista on a refurb laptop and add a gig of cheap $20 DDR2-667 RAM and be happy as a clam for less than $500 by the time all the taxes are factored in, heh. :P
  • buflibufli
    edited November 2008
    ^ don't forget they used to charge, what was it 200$?, for the black paint ;)

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