Oh Noes!
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Yeah, but what if it's the hard drive itself that's dead? I mean, the rest of the laptop is fine, but the hard drive makes wierd clicking sounds before the the whole thing makes loud whizzing sounds and the whole thing goes blank, and is defined as 'unreadable' by the computer.Retoru said:
As much as I would like to think that the solution doesn't involve me losing my hard drive, it's just not the case.
EDIT: Now my avatar is a question mark. As much as I don't want to, I think it's time to move on.
You could try using some sort of boot disk to try to read the drive at a very low level, at least some data might be recoverable that way. If the drive is clicking though, it's most definitely a goner, but data recovery could still be an option for at least a little while.
What did you do to this machine to make that happen? Hard drives are surprisingly robust, they very rarely have a physical fault like what you're describing. Is it possible that you or someone else dropped the laptop at some point? Clicking is usually a sign that the read/write head is bouncing off the drive platters, usually that only happens if the drive has sustained some type of shock to it that causes the rocker arm or the platters to become loose within the housing.
What did you do to this machine to make that happen? Hard drives are surprisingly robust, they very rarely have a physical fault like what you're describing. Is it possible that you or someone else dropped the laptop at some point? Clicking is usually a sign that the read/write head is bouncing off the drive platters, usually that only happens if the drive has sustained some type of shock to it that causes the rocker arm or the platters to become loose within the housing.
I was using it one afternoon, left it for an hour, and when I got back, it was clicking. A few minutes later, it caught a the contagious virus of FAIL.Retoru said:
I really don't know what happened.
Less fun but more noes:
Last year of university and my final grade relies essentially on 3 exams (in the UK your final degree mark is quite a big deal). Studying a Middle Eastern Politics course which is kicking the shit out of me so I'm studying my arse off. Gets to the Sunday before and I check the exam times whilst having a break.
'Hey that's odd,' I think to myself, 'They've changed the name of the exam to Politics of the Middle East.' Say what? Turns out that I'd been preparing for an exam on the wrong day, three days after the one I was supposed to take.
C'mon! Politics of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Politics, what the hell university, what the hell! All worked out in the end (they graded me on an average of my essays throughout the term) but literally the worst night ever.
That's what I get for not making friends on that course!
Last year of university and my final grade relies essentially on 3 exams (in the UK your final degree mark is quite a big deal). Studying a Middle Eastern Politics course which is kicking the shit out of me so I'm studying my arse off. Gets to the Sunday before and I check the exam times whilst having a break.
'Hey that's odd,' I think to myself, 'They've changed the name of the exam to Politics of the Middle East.' Say what? Turns out that I'd been preparing for an exam on the wrong day, three days after the one I was supposed to take.
C'mon! Politics of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Politics, what the hell university, what the hell! All worked out in the end (they graded me on an average of my essays throughout the term) but literally the worst night ever.
That's what I get for not making friends on that course!
Middle Eastern Politics? As a degree? Ouch. That puts me in mind of Al Murray, the Pub Landlord when he said something along the lines of:
"This bit here on the globe is the Middle East. It's a very complicated situation and me explaining it to you could actually make it worse. Let's just say the people here don't get on well".
"This bit here on the globe is the Middle East. It's a very complicated situation and me explaining it to you could actually make it worse. Let's just say the people here don't get on well".
That was going to be my exam answer! Insanely complicated. I think I'd decided to bone up on the Syria/Lebannon spat and on Egyptian nationalism but it's been 18 months now and I can't remember any of it. Suffice to say the whole placed is fucked.Redlac said:
My biggest "Oh Noes!" moment.. Ohhhhh. Not one that I'm going to post here, so I'll put up a slightly less questionable error.
I was I think 10, at an orchestral performance for the school band when I dropped my violin, snapping two strings, the bridge and the scroll. This was before the concert had begun. Needless to say I wasn't thrilled, and although it was not the worlds best violin (Far from) I found it utterly crushing.
I was I think 10, at an orchestral performance for the school band when I dropped my violin, snapping two strings, the bridge and the scroll. This was before the concert had begun. Needless to say I wasn't thrilled, and although it was not the worlds best violin (Far from) I found it utterly crushing.
When I told a girl I loved her and she ran away.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*sobs quietly*
"Give me all your money!"
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I'm sorry about that, I haven't had much sleep.
Going back to the OP, that story kind of reminds me of Lawrence and how he had to rewrite his memoirs seven times because stuff kept on happening to his manuscripts. Instead of giving up, he saw it as a chance to refine what he had done and to bring new elements into it.
Moral of the story is, Hey Joe needs sleep.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*sobs quietly*
"Give me all your money!"
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I'm sorry about that, I haven't had much sleep.
Going back to the OP, that story kind of reminds me of Lawrence and how he had to rewrite his memoirs seven times because stuff kept on happening to his manuscripts. Instead of giving up, he saw it as a chance to refine what he had done and to bring new elements into it.
Moral of the story is, Hey Joe needs sleep.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
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I'll take it.TheDean said:
I don't think I've lived a long enough or risky enough life to have experienced any epic "oh noes" moments yet, but yesterday my 360 froze while I was playing Far Cry 2 and I hadn't saved for about 2 hours... Not so much of an "Oh noes!" moment as a "This f*ing game!" moment.
I've never leveled up a pokemon to level 100...I just do Battle Tower lately and enjoy that all I have to do is hit lvl 50 or higher and the game will auto-adjust my stats to lvl 50.Amnestic said:
The auto-adjust likely pisses off the freaks who EV train meticulously, but that's why some dude invented netbattle so that you can play pokemon online without training or hacking or owning a DS. Besides, my favorite pokemon is Flareon and he would just die instantly in any competitive arena.
And on-topic, an oh-noes moment was when I downloaded GTA: SA on Xbox originals only to realize that it suffers from the worst pop-up imaginable now. I mean, like the road isn't underneath me when I'm moving at slow speeds on foot. And the world is flickering during cutscenes to load the backgrounds...its...just...horrible...now I need to spend 10 bucks on a disc copy since I gave my only disc to my friend.
Lil bro took a screwdriver to all my PS1 memory cards... because he was curious.
After that I picked up one of those memory cards that functions as several cards. It had one button and a counter on it, but no instructions despite being 256 memory cards in one.
After that I picked up one of those memory cards that functions as several cards. It had one button and a counter on it, but no instructions despite being 256 memory cards in one.
During the final year of high school, I had to do a project based on a company's 26-or-so-page annual financial report for my accounting class. The weekend before it's due, I realize that the report of the company I picked is missing a lot of the information that I need. So I'm frantically trying to piece together what little information I can gather into an incomplete mess of a project.
Moral of the story: If you often have that "I don't get it" feeling during the beginning of the class, DROP THAT CLASS, or it'll just get worse. And if you ever have to do a project on a company's financial report in Accounting class, DON'T PICK CANADA BREAD.
Moral of the story: If you often have that "I don't get it" feeling during the beginning of the class, DROP THAT CLASS, or it'll just get worse. And if you ever have to do a project on a company's financial report in Accounting class, DON'T PICK CANADA BREAD.
Similar thing here, was travelling from Shanghai to Hong Kong on an internal Chinese airline, got up to altitude, cruising along and enjoying the view of the coastline when i suddenly noticed the charred wing of the aircraft. Then i noticed slight smoke coming out the engine, just as this was being digested in my mind we entered severe turbulence. Then the cabin crew started looking concerned and the lady next to me started praying. Needless to say i was somewhat concerned at the situation.Pseudonym2 said: