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If you don't mind, can you explain why. If not, its understandable.
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Lizspit
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| that sucks. '_' |
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Silvador
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My computer has been running slowly lately. I am unaware as to why this has been going on. It has been happening for a few weeks. A couple of things have been suggested to me to fix this problem; none of which made any noticeable difference.
At one particular point my laptop was freezing up and I attempted to restart it. When it started I was greeted with a black screen and the words "A disc read error has occured. press ctrl + alt + del to restart". This is as far as I could get.
I am now borrowing my sister's laptop. However, because it does not have wireless the only way I can access the net is to connect it with the ethernet cable which is short and in an awkward location. In other words, I can get on the net, but not sit on it all day as I usually do.
But I'm sure this snippet of good news will not make people jump for joy. *looks at Caroline*
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Rune174
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Well, I can still say some of us will still miss you for the length of period you were gone. You may be a pain in the neck, but you are 'our' pain in the neck.
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| A quick question Silv, Have you ever defraged your pc. Also have you been makeing copys becuase i have three thoerys as to what is happening. A: your hard drive is way to fragmented, thus takeing a long time to find most data. B: you could have been hit by a virus, some viruses just eat resorces makeing PCs slow down to a crawl. or C: your harddrive may be on it's last legs and may just about to be kaput. |
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Silvador
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Evan_Himmel wrote: | | A quick question Silv, Have you ever defraged your pc. Also have you been makeing copys becuase i have three thoerys as to what is happening. A: your hard drive is way to fragmented, thus takeing a long time to find most data. B: you could have been hit by a virus, some viruses just eat resorces makeing PCs slow down to a crawl. or C: your harddrive may be on it's last legs and may just about to be kaput. |
1. Defragging was one of the things suggested to me. I did defrag my comp and it had no effect. 2. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a virus. My computers seem to attract a lot of those  3. The harddrive, like the rest of the laptop, isn't even a year old, so the fucker better not be on its last legs. However, it was explained to me that the problem might be a "hard error". I was told this more or less meant the hard drive has had a chunk taken out of it. Not sure if this was a literal reference or not, but I'm guessing that either way it esentialy means my hard drive is fucked.
I gotta wait till Tuesday to ring them back and find out if they have found anything.
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Lunarlancer
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I work for a harddrive recovery shop. and a harddrive can fail even after an hour of use. its not the question of will a harddrive fail, but when |
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Rune174
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It could be viruses. Thats why it pays to purchase a decent anti-virus software program. I personally use Trend.
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Silvador
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Rune174 wrote: | | It could be viruses. Thats why it pays to purchase a decent anti-virus software program. I personally use Trend. |
I haven't had the best experiences with AV software... mainly due to poor knowledge regarding the usage of them.
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Rune174
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Its alot easier to use alot of them lately. All I had to do with mine is install it, then let itself update, restart, then do a scan and it does the rest.
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It is a good idea to keep the files that you want to keep safe, backed up on a seperate drive. I keep all of the files that i dont want to go through the trouble refinding and redownloading, on an external USB hard drive.
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Rune174
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That is true, my dad has been keeping his data lately in a separate partition just in case something went awry.
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| In my experience having a back-up on the same harddrive but different partition is a very bad idea cause if the harddrive stops working you won't be able to read ether partition and your back-up is useless and unreadable. i suggest buying an external harddrive for around $120 instead of waiting for the inevitable and spending at least $1500 on data recovery |
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Rune174
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, but my dad thinks he knows everything and won't listen to the basic functions of external hard drives.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| Rune174 wrote: | | Yeah, but my dad thinks he knows everything and won't listen to the basic functions of external hard drives. |
heh. parents.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| eh like all our costumers they'll learn to use an external drive when they lose all there data and have to pay thousands. sorry to say but people like your dad keep us in business. |
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Rune174
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Very true, but it does'nt take much to say that using a computer only takes a little bit of training and some common sense to even keep these things running.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Very true but one mistake can turn everything ass backwards. I've even done that. |
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Silvador
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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My laptop hard drive is literally... fucked.
It's not going ot cost me between $200 and $400 to have the 360GB hard drive replaced and the backup uploaded onto it.
I really hate computers.
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Rune174
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately our existence right now depends on computers these days.
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