oh fuck. i came back from my CNM class to find that i couldn’t turn on my desktop, with an ominous “DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER” message.
despite restarting my desktop a few times, the message remained. i gave up and connected my laptop so i could google and see if this was a solvable problem…
and it’s not. i called up the place i got my desktop from, and they confirmed that it was likely a hard disk crash. since it’s still under warranty, they can just send over and install another hard disk for me, no problem.
the problem is that this happened before my scheduled backups kicked in. which leaves me with NO backups of my programme settings, some of the miscellaneous files i created that don’t fall under the folders i chose to backup, i can say bye to my itunes playlists and a chunk of my music (some of which i deleted when i moved them over to my laptop, because the hard disk there was too small)… ARGH MY PROGRAMMES AND ALL THEIR SETTINGS ARE GONE!!!
gone gone gone. and when i try to remember what exactly i had put in (it takes time to set up everything nicely), i can’t freaking remember anything. the saying about how you don’t miss stuff till they’re gone is TOTALLY true. i miss my desktop already :( why why why why why did the drive with the programme settings and all have to fail??? it would have been really painful if the extra one (with all my movies, dramas, etc) died but at least i could just slowly download stuff back. why did i NOT backup all my settings??? why did i only set my backups to run every two weeks? WHY???
and now i have completely like no mood to do anything. all i can think about is, my hard disk died. my hard disk died. my hard disk died :((((((((
and yes, i know it could have been worse, like me not having a usable laptop (thank goodness i reformatted it!) or it happening like after i’d finished some assignment for NM2208. ARGH now that i think of it, maybe the module cursed me, what with all their talk of hard disk crashes and excuses… arghhhhhhhhhhhhh.
as you can tell, i am very upset. i am pretty much depressed now. i could possibly send the hard disk for data recovery, but seeing that it’s probably a physical failure, it’ll cost a bomb. and as much as i need those settings back, i don’t think it’s really worth a few hundred bucks… SIGH. and then there are those files which i somehow DID NOT BACKUP and are not of like monetary value but extremely important to me (SO WHY DID I FORGET TO BACK IT UP?)…
sigh. i suppose what is gone is gone… and from now on and i will very religiously back up my stuff. time to get ANOTHER external hard disk (yes, i’m that paranoid now) so i can completely back up my C:\ drive in future.
someone up there must hate me, somehow :(((
i have no motivation to do anything now. i think i will just take a shower, sleep and hope that somehow my hard disk will be okay again when i wake up… :((((
