Me and My Harddrive

[sisabet]

So the geeks lied. I went by to pickup my computer Friday after work and they told me that they called me too soon. The program drive plays fine in another machine - when they put it in mine it stutters (which has been my problem all along). They still maintain the E drive is toast -- just that is not the only problem I have.

Chris said he pulled all my cards and checked them. He said he checked the rom drives. He says he has checked everything (but curiously we have not discussed the motherboard). On Saturday I made them give me my storage drive and I bought (on the advice of tzikeh) one of these niftly little devices that makes it an external drive. So now me and my storage drive are like a traveling duo. It is sitting in my "Friends of the Library" tote behind me in my cubicle as I type. He's keeping "American Gods" company while I work cause damn, that book got good and it shouldn't be alone. Neither should my storage drive. They are like One True Pair right now.

Chris said something about stripping my system down and running some kind of diagnostic on it. Whatever. I tuned him out cause I thought this is what they had already done. I'm tired of this and they win. They do. They have beaten me. I've quit calling. I might stop by after work today and look through the glass into the lab but man that is just too painful.

I mean - something is wrong. It is obvious. This is a computer. It is made of interacting parts - you find where the hiccup is and you either fix it or you replace that part. Except this seems to be a complex issue and there are several things wrong at once. Or something.

But I'm okay. I've got my storage drive. I am maybe a woman without a country but I have a very nice suitcase.

Comments

[swanswan.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the effect of pretty luggage on one's morale. In times of great stress (being stranded in a strange land, or having your life-on-hard-drive in the hands of those people) a clear sense of the aesthetics become very important.

[luminosity]

I was sans computer for 11 days in March for pretty much the same thing. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, and when they did, suddenly I was put at the end of the line (which was infuriating). I'm glad you have an external HD with tote. Is there anything I can do?

And American Gods? Oh yeah. Great, great book. I'm glad you continued to give it a chance. It reminds me of Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories. Have you read that? If not, I could dig it out, bring it and *let* you read it, but you have to give it back because it's out of print now. But the cover looks really good.

[astolat]

I poke my head in to pass on the warning that some of those external drive enclosures (usually the small less expensive ones) can get very hot, which can kill a drive really quick. I've had two die on me in one of those enclosures.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Ack! Thank you - I will use sparingly.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Gah. I'm so sorry.

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