So the HDD on my notebook PC seems to have finally decided that life isn't worth living. It's been giving me trouble for the last couple of months, and yesterday morning it just sort decided that it wasn't going to work anymore. I've run every trick I know on it, and even now it will only give me a C: prompt 1/2 of the time. Sigh... A great deal of my recent annoyance with it is owed in large part to Symantec's seeming need to dominate the Windows registry with a lot of extraneous entries that they don't bother to remove even after a complete uninstall. This coupled with a OS refresh and then a corrupted registry + Windows' extremely stupid auto registry restore managed to thoroughly muddy up both my registry and my SYSTEM.INI. Result? Me, being extremely pissed off, and my computer giving me protection errors everytime I turn it on.
Unfortunately I'd sort of counted on the hard drive last at least another 2 months, and so I took all of the money I'd set aside for a new one and loaned it to Jared and Bridget so they could pay their rent and buy food. And it doesn't seem like they are going to be in any position to pay me back anytime soon, either.
So for now I'm stuck working on my desktop machine, which I hate. It's far more powerful but not nearly as much fun to use.
Unfortunately I'd sort of counted on the hard drive last at least another 2 months, and so I took all of the money I'd set aside for a new one and loaned it to Jared and Bridget so they could pay their rent and buy food. And it doesn't seem like they are going to be in any position to pay me back anytime soon, either.
So for now I'm stuck working on my desktop machine, which I hate. It's far more powerful but not nearly as much fun to use.