Sunday, January 15, 2006

WHY!?!



My hard drive crashed - it sucks so hard I can't even tell you. Last night, it started acting slow and freezing. It got progressively worse until Nicholas decided to reinstall my operating system. Then, I called the Apple Helpline and they told me to do all this stuff that made it worse. THEN, I went to the Apple Store and the so-called "geniuses" did all this stuff that made it worse. Finally, they decided to send it off for a new hard drive and it should be back in 3-10 days.

In all honesty, it could be so much worse. We just backed up all my stuff to an external drive. Actually, it's kind of funny because we bought the external drive because my music was taking up so much room. Well, it turns out I didn't really need it because I just accidently been uploading music files in this really large format. So, I converted them back and deleted the big files and I was fine. Luckily, we decided to keep the drive and back up all my documents or else this crash would have been disasterous.

However, it still really sucks because its going to be a couple days without a computer and a couple of hours getting it back to where it used to be once I get one. I guess I'm just paying back bad kharma for bragging about how great Macs are to all my PC using friends. I mean I watch My Name is Earl so you'd think I'd know better. But I'm sure I'll get mine when I have to go beg to all them for last week's class notes.

3 comments:

Christopher said...

Sarah,

You backed up recently. That's the key thing. All machines with moving parts fail, and the hard drive has the most moving parts of anything inside a computer. It was destined to fail. Shit happens, you were prepared. Move along.

Haley said...

Oh, My GOD! There is actually SOMETHING wrong with a MAC? AND you admitted it. No way.

Rob said...

I thought Macs had magical hard drives that are lubricated with fairy dust. Damn.