I'm at my desk at work, busy doing the normal three things at once. I get up and trip over the power cord to my laptop, pulling it off the desk and crashing to the floor. Quick check, is working fine.
Or so I thought. A while later it shuts down -- battery low. Hello? You're plugged in! No..... seems that the power connection broke, internally. Would need a new motherboard or a new power connector soldered to the existing motherboard. Fixing a P-300 is not worth the cost of having a Tech look at it.
*SIGH* Take the HD out and install it in an older laptop -- a P-133 with no USB port. Wouldn't boot. Load a win98 startup floppy, looks good. Back up vital data from the C: partition to the D: partition. Re-install win98. On-line!
Note: at this time anyone with the sense of a rock would back up vital data to some place, any place, off the computer.
What can I say, I'm male.
Windows asked to run scandisk, did so for a few hours (40 gigs in a p-133 is *S*L*O*W*.) Finally the drive started going *clunk* *clunk* *clunk* and the computer says there is no hard drive.
My file with all my passwords -- gone.
My text files I've had since 1995 -- gone.
Pictures from my digital camera -- gone.
It was a bad weekend.
bummer man!
Posted by: Wingo at March 24, 2004 07:07 PM