Bad computer

I am not a happy bunny. And it's not the usual girl rubbish.

My lovely laptop has entered a comatose state. It won't start up and let me do things, and the limited diagnostics I have been able to perform gives me the impression that it may be the hard drive that has gone. If so, that would be the second one in 2 years. Last time it was an utter pain in the ass as I had only a total minimum of stuff backed up. This time, clearly I have learnt my lesson and so will have performed regular backups? Don't be daft. I nearly bought a second hard drive earlier this year, but ended up buying the laptop instead. And then because networking the mac to the PC proved very fiddly and intermittent, I never really bothered backing stuff up to the PC.

So potentially I may have lost a load of irreplaceable stuff. Again. Photos, writings, tunes, spreadsheets, and things that I won't realise I've lost for a while. At least I should be able to rip the tunes back off the iPod once I'm up and running again. But most of the other stuff will be gone.

So until I manage to get things fixed, I'm stuck back on the PC. Maybe I'll be lucky and it won't be the hard drive after all.

I am going to go and flagellate myself for being an idiot.