My machine, R.I.P.
It's been totally awesome lately. Yesterday, I noticed via iChat that a colleague was listening to a "The Who" song. Horrified, I clicked the tiny arrow to launch the track in iTunes, and re-affirm my dislike of "The Who". "This will provide catharsis," I thought, "and then I can begin the long process of restoring my repsect for this colleague again."
Then things went terribly wrong.
The Spinning Beach Ball of Death appeared. iTunes launched, sluggishly, then lagged, then froze. Force Quit came up red. More lagging, More Beach Ball. I began to perspire, and thru blurred vision I performed a Hard Restart...
...10 uneasy minutes later a User login screen appeared. Strange. Aside from the fact that my machine is set to login automatically, none of my previous User Accounts were available. Only a prompt to login as, "Freelance_Bob". Paniced, I tried all of my logins, hoping that the "Hint" option would appear. It never did. Nothing worked. I was locked out.
I called my brilliant, prat-falling, Cher-impersonating buddy MacMD for help. He advised that I boot into Safe Mode. Doing so simply froze the machine. Then he told me to boot into UNIX and try the fsck -fy prompt, which confirmed our fears — my HD was fucked.
Choking back tears, I pedaled to Tekserve and dropped a bill on Disk Warrior 4. I received DW's diagnosis 3 hours later. DW was able to create a preview of my HD, but not restore it because the disk was so severly damaged. Mercifully, I was able to pull data onto an external, and for this option alone I recommend picking up DW 4. Especially if you're an idiot like myself who thinks their machine is immortal.
And so here it sits. Dead metal and silicon. Useless. Frozen shackles to my work-weary wrists, and cold cell to my highest aspirations. I believe I will dress her in a used, cheap HD and kick her to The Curb of eBay like the fork-toungued whore she is. Harsh words, I know, but these are harsh and brutal times, friends.
Comments
fuck!
Posted by: brian | June 21, 2007 04:29 AM
i hate the who!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: miss whiss | June 26, 2007 07:16 PM
Yeah!!! Fuck The Who. The Whaaaat?!?
Posted by: bob | June 28, 2007 08:32 PM