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AAAAAAACK!!!
OK, so I got up this morning thinking I would try and work on uploading things to the new cel gallery since my daughter is sitting in here with me watching Playhouse Disney as she eats her breakfast. It's really hard to write with Micky and Co. (or whatever) in the background. Particularly when kids' shows are, of course, cheerful, and what I'm writing is so very ... well, not. >.O
But I turned on my PC only to have it make a horrible squealing/alarm sort of noise and do ... nothing.
O_O
I think my darling old-faithful PC has finally cratered. I'm sitting here trying not to think it. And trying not to panic or anything. But still ... WAAAAAAH!!! I love that computer. Love, love, love it. And everything is still on there. All my writing files. My photos. My website stuff -- all my art images. I haven't transferred anything over to the other computer yet, partly because I've been busy and partly because I was going from PC to Mac, and I wasn't sure exactly how the transfer would work. It's stupid, but still ... sometimes the brain shies away from something that seems too complicated and sticky. Particularly when surrounded with the mundane problems of daily life, like sick dogs, sick kids, plumbing that needs to be fixed, household chores that have to be done, a hubby that travels, and yadda, yadda, yadda. Luckily, I backed things up not that long ago. I know I have backups of all my art image files, so that's a good thing. I don't think I would want to try to scan all of those again.
But now I'm panicking because I'm not sure if my latest photographs were backed up or not. I had some really pretty pictures of my daughter in a dress my aunt sent ... and I may have lost those. Among others. The photographs, if I can't get them off that computer, are gone for good. That's the horrible part of digital photography. *cries*
Just ... AAAAAAAAAACK!!! *flails around*
But I turned on my PC only to have it make a horrible squealing/alarm sort of noise and do ... nothing.
O_O
I think my darling old-faithful PC has finally cratered. I'm sitting here trying not to think it. And trying not to panic or anything. But still ... WAAAAAAH!!! I love that computer. Love, love, love it. And everything is still on there. All my writing files. My photos. My website stuff -- all my art images. I haven't transferred anything over to the other computer yet, partly because I've been busy and partly because I was going from PC to Mac, and I wasn't sure exactly how the transfer would work. It's stupid, but still ... sometimes the brain shies away from something that seems too complicated and sticky. Particularly when surrounded with the mundane problems of daily life, like sick dogs, sick kids, plumbing that needs to be fixed, household chores that have to be done, a hubby that travels, and yadda, yadda, yadda. Luckily, I backed things up not that long ago. I know I have backups of all my art image files, so that's a good thing. I don't think I would want to try to scan all of those again.
But now I'm panicking because I'm not sure if my latest photographs were backed up or not. I had some really pretty pictures of my daughter in a dress my aunt sent ... and I may have lost those. Among others. The photographs, if I can't get them off that computer, are gone for good. That's the horrible part of digital photography. *cries*
Just ... AAAAAAAAAACK!!! *flails around*
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So far, though, things look pretty positive. I was able to get the computer running so that I could do another back-up of my (failing) hard drive. I had backed it up more recently than I originally thought, so I wasn't in danger of losing anything, even without the newest backup. But I figured better safe than sorry. After that, we cloned the problematic drive. Now it's just a matter of putting the new/cloned drive into the machine to see if that will fix the problem. Unfortunately, that's something hubby will do for me ... so I kind of have to wait until he has the time to do it. Hopefully this weekend. >.O