Members JasmineTea Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Dead in the water. Nixed. 86. Vamouse. See ya. Goomba. The big one. Nice knowin' ya. Chow. Last rites. Outta here. Down the road. Ashes to ashes. And along with it goes all my cool links and a {censored} load of cool guitar info I've collected in the last couple years. {censored}. I post from another location, somewhat removed from JT Land.
Members Old_Joe_Clark Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Originally posted by JasmineTea Dead in the water. Nixed. 86. Vamouse. See ya. Goomba. The big one. Nice knowin' ya. Chow. Last rites. Outta here. Down the road. Ashes to ashes. And along with it goes all my cool links and a {censored} load of cool guitar info I've collected in the last couple years.{censored}.I post from another location, somewhat removed from JT Land. But your hard drive may be OK and can be easily put in a new machine. All your links and other stuff should still be there....somewhere just below the surface. Oh...you can add "Tango Uniform" to your list of "dead" synonyms.
Members jackwr Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Originally posted by JasmineTea Dead in the water. Nixed. 86. Vamouse. See ya. Goomba. The big one. Nice knowin' ya. Chow. Last rites. Outta here. Down the road. Ashes to ashes. And along with it goes all my cool links and a {censored} load of cool guitar info I've collected in the last couple years.{censored}.I post from another location, somewhat removed from JT Land. Sometime you can get at the files if your lucky and persistant enough. I don't know your level of pc knowledge. I assume since you are already lamenting over your lost files my guess would be hard drive and no backup. Sometime you can recover a lot from a drive that won't boot if that is the problem.
Members JasmineTea Posted July 17, 2006 Author Members Posted July 17, 2006 I'll try to be optimistic. I know one tech guy but he's usualy busy. Tango unifrorm. I hav'nt set a date for the funeral yet.
Members guit30 Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Sorry to hear that, why I don't own one, use the ones at the computer lab where I work after hours , no one here
Members JasmineTea Posted July 17, 2006 Author Members Posted July 17, 2006 Originally posted by guit30 Sorry to hear that, why I don't own one, use the ones at the computer lab where I work after hours , no one here Janitor?
Members Whalebot Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Was it drinking and surfing when it crashed? I couldn't resist. Sorry JT that sucks.
Members kwakatak Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 That sucks, JT. What kind of computer is it? I hope you get that guy to look at your hard drive and back up that info for you.
Members Queequeg Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 um...what about back ups?you DO back up, right?CD?DVD?external HDD?
Members JasmineTea Posted July 17, 2006 Author Members Posted July 17, 2006 Originally posted by Queequeg um...what about back ups?you DO back up, right?CD?DVD?external HDD? Nodda. This is fly-by-night computing around here. Kwak, it's an old DELL 220 workstation. I think the problem is I never added any ram to it, otherwise it might've been ok for a long time. I don't know. Whale, I was watching stuff on YouTube when it crashed. No booze, although I'm having a nice drink now made of Jim Beam and Arizona green tea.
Members kwakatak Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Ugh - that explains it. Dude, you got a DELL! That's what I have ( a five year old Dimension 4300 tower that is sitting by my feet as I type this) and I've had a few problems with it too. There are times that I want to put my foot through it.
Members t60 fan Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 While I am quick to bash PC's, I can't 'cause my Mac powerbook's hard drive crashed a month ago - and with un-backedup pic's of my father who recently passed away. My only option was a company called Drive Savers. They said the range would be between $500 and $2700 to recover the files. My insurance deductible is $500 (loss of data insurance for my business), so I consider it an expensive lesson re: backing up stuff. I definitely would rather have given money to Martin than my insurance company!
Frets99 Posted July 17, 2006 Posted July 17, 2006 Originally posted by JasmineTea I'm having a nice drink now made of Jim Beam and Arizona green tea. Hmmmmmm I like both... I wonder!!
Members d03nut Posted July 17, 2006 Members Posted July 17, 2006 Oh no, now you have to visit some computer "forums" to get info.....oh no, that sucks. As you may recall, I too had a Dell computer that "died" on me. Lesson learnt the "hard" way: computers are not that much different than acoustic guitars, you gotta be prepared to do some "maintenance"...... I'm sure you'll "recover" one way or another though.....
Members jackwr Posted July 18, 2006 Members Posted July 18, 2006 I've had a number of repairs of drives that would boot. Put in a new one that's bootable, readdress the old one and maybe you will still have access to some of the info. Last one I had to do only lost about 5%. Sometime only the boot stuff (that's techie talk for me) gets clobbered. Unfortunately support normally has you try formatting the drive before you replace it. If that fixes the problem, you erased the data yourself (but their problem is fixed).
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