Right now, the most important thing to me is probably my thesis. The deadline for the submission of the first draft is on the 20th. I’ll be barely sleeping this week. Argh
I almost freaked out yesterday (or was it the day before? The lack of sleep is getting to me. ) when I tried to switch on my computer (I have a desktop.) only to see a black screen. I tried again to no avail. I put off the power supply, remove the cables, plug them back and tried to switch on my computer again. This time the screen was black with a couple of weird colorful circles and words. According to the message on the screen, my computer hard disk wasn’t being detected. I panicked. It’s been almost 4 years since I have this computer and I didn’t have any major problems with it.
I was like.. Please don’t die on me now. Come on. A couple more months. Let me finish my thesis. I don’t have a backup. Please.
In my panicked state, I phoned Desmond and told him to come over. Meanwhile, I opened the casing and the amount of dust inside made me sneeze. Atchoum. Let’s see. The last time I opened the casing was 2 years ago when I connected a friend’s hard disk to mine.
hmm . Maybe it’s the dust which is causing this problem, I told myself.
I started cleaning but it took me a long time because I couldn’t find my computer brush. By the time Desmond came over, I was only 1/3 done. He helped me with the rest by.. using my hairdryer ! (using the cold air option of course) :shock: I didn’t think of doing that. :faint:
It seems that the problem was really because of all the dust because after cleaning, my computer was running normally once again. The first thing I did after that was to backup my works on my external hard disk. I told Desmond that I’ll probably kill myself if I lost the content of my hard disk. I exaggerated of course. I won’t kill myself over such a matter but I’ll get really depressed. :worried: Among the material things important to me, my computer (or rather, the hard disk and its content) is in the top 5. hehe.
As soon as I have some free time, I’ll start doing a backup of my current hard disk. Hmm maybe I should do 2 backups.
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Now, someone please enlighten me. Hard disk or Hardisk?
I’m asking because I’ve seen people write it both ways. Google. You’ll see.
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