Fried? Apparently only a little bit…

Why am I up so late? I fried my computer. Not with software, but rather, I electrocuted it and seem to have lost all of the data that was on it. I cannot mount the file system with a live cd. That sucks, but what sucks more is that it wont even boot on a fresh install. I think the hard drive is toast… I wonder if Windows will boot… Hopefully it will and I will not have lost all of the data (I am mostly worried about my homework) that was on my computer…

Ok, weird, I just forced it to boot (to see what would happen) and it booted up just fine… even with the short read errors. It wouldn’t do that before the fresh install. Strangeness. Now I have to set it up the way that I want it again, but at least it is working (for the moment). I wonder what else got corrupted when I zapped it?

Edit

Apparently this has had no effect on the Windows XP install that is located on a different partition (but not a different drive). Weird.


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  • http://seanja.com SeanJA

    How well does XP handle being installed on one of those though? Probably not too well…

  • http://www.dameryworld.com DameryWorld

    I use Western Digital portables…no power supply needed. Just plug into USB and use!
    Many of them come loaded with Google goodies, since you know I love Google.
    Cheers

  • http://www.zoeandgavin.com gavin

    Ya, fried drives get worse as time goes on. Back up your stuff while you still can!

  • http://seanja.com SeanJA

    Now I just need to buy a big external drive for this… and then probably get a new computer…

  • http://zoeandgavin.com zoe

    Maybe you should pull all the important things off that hard drive while it’s working. It will be much easier now than when it ‘finishes’ frying. It’s not a very nice feeling to realize what you had was a second chance to do a backup, and you didn’t.