When Good Computers Go Bad
May 02, 2014
Life took an unexpected detour last weekend when my computer
began “acting funny” (my tech-savvy description). My husband spent a good
portion of two days helping me tinker with the computer and doing online searches
for things like “log on process has failed to create the security options
dialog” and other, more ominous messages. After running various diagnostics and
“fixes” (haha), which resulted in the computer doing nothing but blink at us, we
finally determined the hard drive was failing and needed replacement.
My husband was confident he could replace the hard drive
himself and we ordered a new one. We read a step-by-step description of the
process, and watched a tutorial on YouTube. After the new drive arrived, he was
able to put it in in just a few minutes. The most time-consuming thing has been
reloading my operating system and all my programs. Fortunately, I had all my
documents backed up. I thought I had my photos backed up but didn’t, not all of
them—I’m still working on that. And figuring out how I can plug in my iPod
without iTunes erasing all my music! (That’s happened to me before…) I figure
by the end of today I’ll be finished getting things back to normal.
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| New hard drive |
I’m deeply grateful to my husband, Larry, who worked
patiently for hours while we tried to figure out the problem, and finally fix
it. He put into words the moral of this story when he said, “You can fix
anything if someone will show you how.” A good takeaway when life hands you
unexpected adventure.
I would also add, if you have anything you value on your
computer, back it up, Back It Up, BACK IT UP!
So endeth the lesson.
And how was your week?
6 comments
I'm so awsome!
ReplyDeleteAnd cute, too...
ReplyDeleteOn the chance it will go to his head, I'll second the "awesome!" It's nice to have someone around who can get things back up and running.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a backup!
Laure--Yes, it is nice to have someone around to help in a crisis. And I was lucky that I had the backup--I had been putting that off for a while, and I'd finally just done a back up only a day or two before the crash. Whew.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Larry is your Knight in Shining armor. Great advice to about back up - my brother constantly tells me to do it - sometimes I don't always listen :( - May be very sorry!! Glad to see you are up and working.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Debbie. Yes, definitely back up your stuff. I got lazy for a while and just happened to back up a few days before the crash.
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