Yay I'm back

Doubt anyone noticed my mere absence. It was only a weekend. But yeah... Friday my computer decided to screw me over, and my hard drive said "hmm....you know what? I think today I'll shake things up and stop working" so after a few attempts of resolving the problem myself, I admitted defeat and brought the freaking thing to the local computer shop. 3 days and 180 dollars later, it was back with a fresh new hard drive. And a copy of Windows XP Pro the guy forgot to take out of the hard drive. :twisted:

So yeah, after 3-5 hours of downloading and installing needed programs, updating software, configuring this and that, I'm finally all set up I think. It was only a weekend, but felt like forever. Never had days go by so slow, lol.

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YAY!!!!! i noticed you were gone. only because we're buddies outside the site. :) glad to have you back and posting!!!!!!!! everyone here missed your novel-type posts. :heart::heart::heart:

y did you pay someone to install a harddrive and an OS? installing a harddrive isnt that hard, neither is an OS as long as you have the CD and CD-key.

Cody knows his stuff, I'm sure he checked out the alternatives but good suggestions :)

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Originally Posted by oorob00

y did you pay someone to install a harddrive and an OS? installing a harddrive isnt that hard, neither is an OS as long as you have the CD and CD-key.

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I kept telling my mom to just buy a freaking hard drive and let me do it. But we also dont have any XP disk(none came with the computer :() so I'd still be screwed. So we left it to the professionals. But yeah I could've easily done it all myself if I had the disk and hard drive, lol.

ok thought you would have had a back up disk or something. most of the time you get one, well at least i give people all the disks they need to restore their system back to original when i build systems for people.

Cody's smart... he tells me what to do when i almost break my computer :)

well i am not saying he is stupid but most computer smart people have a back up of their system somewhere either on another harddrive or a cd/dvd backup( i have both just incase) so they dont have to pay someone else fix it.

I do have backups, but none recent. It's not like I can do a backup every day after I save something, lol. And even still, with a backup, I'd still need a new hard drive. I tried wiping the computer out and everything, but the hard drive was kaput. And I already explained how I could've done the fix myself, but it was up to my mother, who owns the computer, and she chose to just bring it in. In fact, she brought it in while I was sleeping that morning, so it was too late anyway. :)

Ok i thought you said that it was your computer not your parents. I built my parents one and the modem went bad and instead of buying a 30 modem they went and bought a new Dell. You also said that you didnt have an OS so what good is a back up if you dont have an OS? But i never said that you didnt need a harddrive but damn 180 buck for a HD and install thats alot. i just bought a 200gig SATA for 100 buck last month and a 120gig SATA for 70 buck 2 months before that. But oh well that is what computer illiterate people do even when they know someone that can fix it for them but just dont either trust them enought or dont want to wait on a fix.

I have recovery disks that IBM sent us. No actual OS installation disks though. Basically if I wanted to wipe out my computer, I pop in the disk, and follow the instructions as it wipes out the hard drive and stuff. But now I do have a disk with XP pro, so I'm set, lol.

Yeah you are set now. I have XP pro, 2003 server, 2000 pro, NT, NT server, and windows 95. Along with any other software that i might need to set up desktops and servers.

I noticed you were gone, im on this site everyday, so its easy to notice when people haven't posted in a while, I was actually gonna make aa post asking where you were, but then I read this. Hehe.

Good to hear - our oldest's hard drive went south last weekend as well - I mean physically threw it's innards around ka-chunk ka-chunk so I feel your pain . . or he does . . . though I was the one who had to reinstall it all. On the up side I did throw together a nice 200G external drive. LOL it's not too hard to get sick of working on the things.

Welcome back Cotter.
Now who know's where Tracey went? :shock:

hey my computer has been screwed up lately too, wll i think that was a good deal since u got a hard drive and windows xp <which isnt very cheap(i have it on my computer too)

i screw up my computer ALL the time.... i've managed to crash it 4 times already, over a period of 5 years. :)

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Originally Posted by Super_Smash

i screw up my computer ALL the time.... i've managed to crash it 4 times already, over a period of 5 years. :)

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You're special like that ;) :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by led4urhead

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Originally Posted by Super_Smash

i screw up my computer ALL the time.... i've managed to crash it 4 times already, over a period of 5 years. :)

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You're special like that ;) :mrgreen:

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hehe, well, of course you help me too.... you and Cody should write a book. "How To NOT Destroy A Computer: For Dummies"