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lishesquexHoly fuck. I think my computer is sentient.
Here's the story. It was 6am. I'd been up all night for the 3rd night in a row procrastinating on my Beowulf essay, which is already 2 days overdue.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wickedkiwi mentions that Elune (my server on WoW) is back up after Tuesday night maintenance. I got "Ooo" because today is the day that the new voicechat feature goes live on Elune. I open WoW so I can play with the voicechat for a few minutes before returning to my essay, but it tells me to download a patch. So I begin downloading. As it finishes downloading and begins to install, my computer freezes up and refuses to do anything. I'm like... ookay, so I hit the reboot button.
While booting up, the computer does this disk check thing but it freezes on 82%. I wait like 5 minutes for it to finish, but it doesn't move. So I hit reboot again and this time skip over the disk check. It boots up fine, Windows loads and everything... 20 seconds later, it crashes again.
Repeat x20 with me trying the disk check thing a few more times in between, but it always freezes on 82%.
I'm panicking because my Beowulf essay is on my desktop and nowhere else, and I had been planning to hand it in today but now there's no way I can finish it. The prospect of rewriting the 3000 word essay of doom makes me want to /wrists.
I steal my sister's laptop and freak out towickedkiwi. She suggests that maybe my computer is trying to scare me into action.
I vow to the universe that I will stop procrastinating and finish my Beowulf essay if only my computer would work again and let me access the file.
Then I notice that the disk check thing has stopped being frozen on 82% and is moving. A small, miniscule spark of hope lights up within me.
I say to Brunnhilda (that's my computer's name), "Brunnhilda, I will love you forever if you fix yourself. Please fix yourself. I will forgive you for giving me a heart attack and making me lose 3 months of my life from stress."
Brunnhilda finishes checking H drive, takes about 20 minutes identifying all the problem files, and takes another 10 minutes deleting said files. Then she boots up normally.
I die from relief.
Out of curiosity, I check my H: drive to see which files were deleted.
My entire World of Warcraft folder is gone. Poof. Obliterated
...
Do you think Brunnhilda is trying to tell me something? Lol.
Anyway, I'm off to fulfil my vow and finish my assignment.
P.S. Brunny, I love you. *hugs my computer*
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[Edit: Not to sound ungrateful or anything, but I'm a little peeved that all my screen grabs (my entire WoW photo album!) and add ons (I'm never going to find them all again >.<) got wiped as well. *sigh*]
Here's the story. It was 6am. I'd been up all night for the 3rd night in a row procrastinating on my Beowulf essay, which is already 2 days overdue.
wickedkiwi mentions that Elune (my server on WoW) is back up after Tuesday night maintenance. I got "Ooo" because today is the day that the new voicechat feature goes live on Elune. I open WoW so I can play with the voicechat for a few minutes before returning to my essay, but it tells me to download a patch. So I begin downloading. As it finishes downloading and begins to install, my computer freezes up and refuses to do anything. I'm like... ookay, so I hit the reboot button.While booting up, the computer does this disk check thing but it freezes on 82%. I wait like 5 minutes for it to finish, but it doesn't move. So I hit reboot again and this time skip over the disk check. It boots up fine, Windows loads and everything... 20 seconds later, it crashes again.
Repeat x20 with me trying the disk check thing a few more times in between, but it always freezes on 82%.
I'm panicking because my Beowulf essay is on my desktop and nowhere else, and I had been planning to hand it in today but now there's no way I can finish it. The prospect of rewriting the 3000 word essay of doom makes me want to /wrists.
I steal my sister's laptop and freak out to
wickedkiwi. She suggests that maybe my computer is trying to scare me into action.I vow to the universe that I will stop procrastinating and finish my Beowulf essay if only my computer would work again and let me access the file.
Then I notice that the disk check thing has stopped being frozen on 82% and is moving. A small, miniscule spark of hope lights up within me.
I say to Brunnhilda (that's my computer's name), "Brunnhilda, I will love you forever if you fix yourself. Please fix yourself. I will forgive you for giving me a heart attack and making me lose 3 months of my life from stress."
Brunnhilda finishes checking H drive, takes about 20 minutes identifying all the problem files, and takes another 10 minutes deleting said files. Then she boots up normally.
I die from relief.
Out of curiosity, I check my H: drive to see which files were deleted.
My entire World of Warcraft folder is gone. Poof. Obliterated
...
Do you think Brunnhilda is trying to tell me something? Lol.
Anyway, I'm off to fulfil my vow and finish my assignment.
P.S. Brunny, I love you. *hugs my computer*
...
[Edit: Not to sound ungrateful or anything, but I'm a little peeved that all my screen grabs (my entire WoW photo album!) and add ons (I'm never going to find them all again >.<) got wiped as well. *sigh*]
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Date: 2007-10-03 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-03 07:39 am (UTC)+
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God, I love my computer.
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Date: 2007-10-03 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-03 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-03 12:19 pm (UTC)...
I mean, that sucks you lost all your WoW stuff... But omg too funny!
*hugs you and your computer*
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Date: 2007-10-03 12:32 pm (UTC)*hugs back*
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Date: 2007-10-06 05:42 am (UTC)Nooooooooooooooooooo....
Not the photo album too!!! Nooo.
Hm, do you know anyone who got the collectors edition (yourself included?)? Because you can just use the one DVD to insall all the discs! But then there are teh icky patches and such.