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"Lady Jane" Just Killed My Old Computer
I bought a new computer with some of the proceeds from the house buy-out, and have been struggling to transfer files all weekend. I purchased PCMover with my new laptop, but my old machine would not recognize the special USB cable, even after I worked my way to the very bottom of the online help.
So this morning I started doing it the old fashioned way, with a 6G USB memory stick. (I would have burned the data to a disk, but the CD-ROM is broken.)
All my documents have been transferred, and I've been working on my music. I had room to move my 1.5G video of Lady Jane and everything seemed fine. I left the table to give the stick time to process everything so I could "remove device safely."
Except that when I got back, the screen was stuck on a screensaver, and my computer was making an ugly, harsh clicking noise.
Ctr-Alt-Delete did nothing, so I did hard shut down and removed the data stick.
Now it's still making the ugly clicking sound, and it won't boot, saying it can't find the hard drive.
I still have (almost) all my emails on that machine (including many from Lohain), several G's of pictures, including family photos, and the other half of my music.
I am about to rouse the daughter, get dressed, and head for the PC Doctor with all possible speed.
So this morning I started doing it the old fashioned way, with a 6G USB memory stick. (I would have burned the data to a disk, but the CD-ROM is broken.)
All my documents have been transferred, and I've been working on my music. I had room to move my 1.5G video of Lady Jane and everything seemed fine. I left the table to give the stick time to process everything so I could "remove device safely."
Except that when I got back, the screen was stuck on a screensaver, and my computer was making an ugly, harsh clicking noise.
Ctr-Alt-Delete did nothing, so I did hard shut down and removed the data stick.
Now it's still making the ugly clicking sound, and it won't boot, saying it can't find the hard drive.
I still have (almost) all my emails on that machine (including many from Lohain), several G's of pictures, including family photos, and the other half of my music.
I am about to rouse the daughter, get dressed, and head for the PC Doctor with all possible speed.
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I can probably adapt the cables to work so that you don't have to use the thumb drive, we will take a look at it when we get there if you still need help.
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My dad's contact is going to remove the hard drive and put it in a remote drive box, which I should then be able to access via cable. It seems like a sensible option, assuming the drive isn't damaged.
Whatever the hadware situation, are we on for Thursday dinner? I believe we had a grilling lesson under discussion before the recall crisis hit. Chris is welcome to come along.