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December 5, 2003
BATTLE WOUNDS
Corie vs. The Harddrive, December 04, 2003
Who knew one could be injured installing a new harddrive. After much fiddling and marvelling at the cramped harddrive housing of my tiny Dell computer, accidentally smearing blood onto my freshly painted wall, and preventing my 13lb cat from curling up inside the computer casing, I managed to get Euclid back up and running. I was up way to late attempting to install all of my required software. But now, scratches aside, I actually have a working computer AND cable connection.
Posted by callalillie at December 5, 2003 11:01 AM | Geek
yikes, that's not good. you should tell people you got in a fight with a neighborhood thug named "Euclid." he/she was welcoming you to the area, but you showed him/her who's boss.
Posted by: tien at December 5, 2003 11:37 AM
Yeah, I'm a badass geek, comin' at ya.
Posted by: callalillie at December 5, 2003 12:42 PM
how did you manage that?? nasty. so did you ever find out what happened to your old drive?
Posted by: Jimmy Legs at December 5, 2003 12:49 PM
Still no clue as to what was wrong. Dr. Dad will probably take a look at the sick one in a few weeks. I'm hoping that maybe we can save some things, including my music and photographs.
I have one of those small Dell Dimensions. There's very little space inside-- unplugging the wires was a tight squeeze...I kept banging my hand on various metal parts.
Posted by: callalillie at December 5, 2003 1:20 PM
Hmmm... badass or klutz, it's a tossup. The old HD goes in for a postmortum next week. Dr. Bob's early diagnosis is sectors that held certain boot files went bad. We'll try to bring back all the photo files from the grave at the same time.
Next surgery - a CD-ROM transplant. We're buying callalillie welder's gloves for that one.
Posted by: bobtrancho at December 5, 2003 1:59 PM
Mmm. The cd drive is easier to get to. It's on the other side of the casing!
Posted by: callalillie at December 5, 2003 2:39 PM
Sorry to burst that bubble, but the CD is UNDER where you had to dig out the HD. The HD was easy to get to in comparison. You may have to remove the HD and floppy to get to get to the CD.
Woodcarvers have a fine chain mail glove available to help prevent accidently digging big chunks out of their hands. I wonder if the come in petite sizes...
Those Dell Optiplex small format units take up very little desktop real estate but are a PITA to work on.
Posted by: bobtrancho at December 5, 2003 9:37 PM
Posted by: corie at December 6, 2003 4:52 PM
