I managed to retrieve a large number of the lost pictures from my hard disk AND get Linux and Windows both running happily. Everything was fine and dandy.
Five hours later I have a complete hard disk failure. There go 7000 mp3s, my CV, schoolwork, all the important stuff. MUST_STAY_POSITIVE. I don’t want to talk about what happened to my backup, that’s just not funny.
I gave up on the 80Gb hard disk, put it to one side to tinker with later and stuck in a 20Gb disk and installed windows in the hope that I could actually get some work done. But no, it was running stupidly, unusably slowly. Was it the memory? Was it the IDE cable or another hard disk? A motherboard problem? CPU overheating? I stripped the computer down and rebuilt from scratch, piece by piece to find the problem by elimination. It still ran slow.
When I eventually found the problem a couple of days later it turned out to be not hardware related at all. Windows was trying to index my hard disk to make the most frequently used applications quicker to access and in the process making the computer run stupidly slow… thereby defeating the object of what it was doing.
Well anyway, a little stressed about all the things I have to do before the end of the academic year. Got my preliminary exam dates today which show that my Pure 3 exam is before my Pure 1 and Pure 2 exams… right. Also, I have 6 hours of exams in one day which will be lots of fun!
I’m finally starting writing to companies begging for jobs for next year, wish me luck.
I love magnatune.com
The voice in my head is telling me it’s time for bed. (Please note that the voice in my head does not have a name. This is a mistake that a couple of my friends have made and only leads to trouble.)