Rough day? Vent here . . .

I second that Mono!

Why does technology let you down when you need it the most? I have to finish writing my Shakespeare essays, but my disk won't work. It wants me to reformat it. It worked last night. Does my computer just get a kick out of making me drive all the way to campus to spend the next two days in a rather uncomfortable computer lab, instead of working in my comfy house with a nice cup of tea and a bowl of popcorn? (I love popcorn) I hear my computer's evil cackle as I drive off.

Anyone got any ideas what's wrong with the stupid thing?

Sometimes you can do a scandisk on the disk, like you do on your computer. If it´s a minor error it might work. Is the disk old? Sometimes they start to go bad. I do not know why, though.

Good luck!

Today was a rough day for me. I lost half of everything about me because I retired my super-hero alter-ego, Flambouyantman. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

awww.... nice name

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Originally Posted by Bongitybongbong

Today was a rough day for me. I lost half of everything about me because I retired my super-hero alter-ego, Flambouyantman. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

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Keep a stiff upper lip, don't be too upset about flambouyantmans etirement...ever see the Kryptonite music video?

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Originally Posted by Isagel

Sometimes you can do a scandisk on the disk, like you do on your computer. If it´s a minor error it might work. Is the disk old? Sometimes they start to go bad. I do not know why, though.

Good luck!

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Is that where you look for viruses? I'm a dunce with computers. If you explain it, maybe it's something my husband hasn't thought of yet. Though he's pretty good with computers, it's his job after all. I doubt though that I'll be able to fix all that before my paper is due anyway.

It's so frustrating! :rage: :rage: Not only did I just lose every paper on there, but also the first two well constructed pages of one of my final Shakespeare papers. I literally spent the entire day rewriting them. I can't beleive I've been at this computer for over twelve hours and I'm not even halfway done! I hate rewriting from scratch! :rage: :rage: :rage:

My only consolation is that I don't have to take that math final after all. I really surprised myself on that last test. It kicked my butt, but I only got one answer wrong! :D :D I was sure that I had failed it!

Cool, it is always awesome when little surprises like that occur! :thumbs_up

A thought on your compy troubles... sometimes disks if transferred from one comp with a different OS than another have trouble reading the other Comps disk format, as was the case with win 95.

Also comp disks over time do start to degrade, especially if they have been formatted over and over again, also if the disk was near something magnetic, ex magnets. speakers? it will degrade and often become inoperable...

Best of luck with your paper, it really burns me up whenever I have to retyp something. One thing I learned the hard way is always to save my work to atleast to floppy disks, and a master copy on the compy's hard drive.

Good luck and Seasonal wishes!

how i hate buses. i get up at 6 am in order not to be late to the university, then i freeze at the bus stop for something like 20 minutes just to learn that my bus is out (of course i have only one bus that goes where it should but still it's not a direct connection). so i take a tram and then a bus and another bus and still have to walk for about 15 minutes (and remember that it's cold) and when i finally DO reach my university and am ON TIME it turns out that the first lecture has been cancelled :(

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Originally Posted by Shea

Is that where you look for viruses? I'm a dunce with computers. If you explain it, maybe it's something my husband hasn't thought of yet. Though he's pretty good with computers, it's his job after all. I doubt though that I'll be able to fix all that before my paper is due anyway.

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It´s a small program that fixes minor errors on discs, usually you use it on the computers. It is not a virus program. Try and use the search function on your computer and search for the program "scandisk" or scandisc ? I´m not sure of the spelling. When you use the program it will ask you what disk you want it to scan. You just have to choose the floppydisk . That should be drive A:, I think. The program will now scan, and fix minor errors. You might loose some information. I hope it works. If it´s a big error , it will not work.

I hope this is readable. I´ll try and write an english description on how to do it - all the programs on this computer are in swedish , but my pc at home has the english names. It´s a handy thing to know.

I'm feelin' ya Monica. I have about 3 hours left to finish my paper but I got to vent one more time about computers! I put off finishing Shakespeare to get some French journals and compositions done (they're due in 4 hours). So now I'm at school in the computer lab because Leo won't buy a printer and I can't log on to the internet because we're too close to our peak minute limit. Yes, our internet access is through the cell phone, thank USF they're squeezing every nickle from us on useless classes. Anyway, I get here only to find that as careful as I was to save to a new disk AND the hard drive, all my French stuff didn't save. I've either got to go aaaaalllllllllll the way home which will waste an hour, or hope that my French teacher is kind enough to take my assignments later (when they're already late)! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

OK, I'm ready to finish Shakespeare.

GRRR, I just realized that I forgot to copy my other Shakespeare paper to a disk. It's at home too. I hope she's just as forgiving.

I HATE COMPUTERS!!

I read some of the closed threads, prohibited to replies due to insulting remarks. I want to restore peace. Cannot we all get along?!

Mono, it's not only about peace. It's about being on topic

No we cannot all get along.

I think you misunderstand mono. I'm not mad at anyone in particular, especially not here in the forums. Like Monica, I'm mad at my situation which I'm getting another cold from because of the stress (typical).

BTW, Isagel, in my frustration, I forgot to thank you for your advice. But Leo did that. Didn't work. Thanks anyway. :)

ALMOST DONE!

DONE!! :D :D :D

Now I can deck the halls, read what I want and watch movies :santasmil :banana:

Just wrote My chem lab final today, and I realised that I screwed up an important question...stupid @#$%^&* equilibrium. anywho, any one else hate chemistry?

Oh SubT and Mono, its about staying on topic (hard to do, human nature and all :D) and bringing peace back. But I think its about time we all crucify mono! (Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy loosly paraphrased: last time some one said lets all try peace for a change, they went and nailed him to a tree)

Yeah I would like to bring back the good ol' days, 'One for all and all for one!' who is with me?