Why do computers become possessed?

[penemuel]

My Gateway laptop is acting strangely -- trying to get things backed up on CD so that when I contact the service people and they suggest "Try this!" and it wipes out everything, I at least have it somewhere.

So, of course, the CD drive at work is being wonky, too. What I've been trying to do, since I can't trust the one on the laptop, is save the CD as a 'direct CD' writable one, then bring it to work to finalize it. Of course, that's still only working with about half of them. ::sigh:: At least most of the art is safe -- I think.

Yikes. I wonder how long I'll be on the phone with the service guys. Hopefully it's a software thing I can fix with them walking me through it. All of the diagnostics I've run (Norton Utilities, PC Doctor, etc.) say there are no hardware problems...

::sigh::

Comments

[mayphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm having problems with my Gateway, too. DVD CD-Rom isn't working, the HP CD burner I put in isn't working so I can't back off any of my files. I'm SO screwed.

The last time I had a problem, I had to wipe out everything and start from scratch. I lost TONS of stuff because I couldn't back it up. Now I'm looking at that again. :(

Good luck. Here's hoping for the best....

::sigh::

[penemuel.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- see my newest entry for an update!

BTW, LOVE your icon!!

Re: ::sigh::

[mayphoenix.livejournal.com]

Love your icon, too! *G*