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Jan. 15th, 2018 05:47 pmThis morning I turned on my laptop like I do every morning, and I was greeted by a black screen with a terrifying error message. Something about imminent hard disk failure, and an urgent need to back up before my computer breaks completely. Press enter to continue booting up, it said, but when I pressed enter a new, more dismaying message appeared informing me that there was no boot device.
I ran the scans it would let me run, and finally shut the laptop off. We'd promised to spend the afternoon visiting my mother-in-law at the nursing home, and it was time to go. Only the kids weren't ready, so on a whim I turned it back on. This time it booted up as if nothing was wrong.
I promptly connected the external hard drive from my old laptop and backed up anything that looked important, and shut the computer back down again. At least now, I thought, if I have to buy a new laptop, my work and my photos are saved.
When we got home I tried turning the computer on again. Same black screen, same scary message. I shut it off and tried again. No joy. I shut it off again, and the third time it did boot. There's nothing new to back up, but I did make sure my email was checked and my online bills were paid. Now I'm afraid to turn it off again, but if the hard drive is going to fail, it's going to fail whether the computer is on or off... right?
The really crappy thing is that I had just realized that we're spending more money than we're making again, and the meager savings account is quickly depleting. Time to cut back, I'd decided. Go back to subsistence shopping, skip the treats.
Then my husband needed a $250 car repair, and the back storm door blew nearly off its hinges, damaging the interior hardware so it no longer shuts properly. And now on top of everything else, it looks like I need a new laptop. And let's not even talk about the heating bill we're going to see next month as a result of the deep freeze this month.
Some days I feel like there's just no point.
I ran the scans it would let me run, and finally shut the laptop off. We'd promised to spend the afternoon visiting my mother-in-law at the nursing home, and it was time to go. Only the kids weren't ready, so on a whim I turned it back on. This time it booted up as if nothing was wrong.
I promptly connected the external hard drive from my old laptop and backed up anything that looked important, and shut the computer back down again. At least now, I thought, if I have to buy a new laptop, my work and my photos are saved.
When we got home I tried turning the computer on again. Same black screen, same scary message. I shut it off and tried again. No joy. I shut it off again, and the third time it did boot. There's nothing new to back up, but I did make sure my email was checked and my online bills were paid. Now I'm afraid to turn it off again, but if the hard drive is going to fail, it's going to fail whether the computer is on or off... right?
The really crappy thing is that I had just realized that we're spending more money than we're making again, and the meager savings account is quickly depleting. Time to cut back, I'd decided. Go back to subsistence shopping, skip the treats.
Then my husband needed a $250 car repair, and the back storm door blew nearly off its hinges, damaging the interior hardware so it no longer shuts properly. And now on top of everything else, it looks like I need a new laptop. And let's not even talk about the heating bill we're going to see next month as a result of the deep freeze this month.
Some days I feel like there's just no point.
