Today started off GREAT. I woke up super late, yet still managed to shower and get all squeaky clean before heading off to class (late, yet still before the teacher). My day went normal as usual, going to class, then lunch, back to my room. As I open my laptop.. BOOM! BSOD. I didn't think much of it seeing as how it had happened occasionally throughout the years I've had it. Today was different though.. When I booted up the system, I was greeted by "No bootable device found. Press F1..blah" I tried everything from removing and replacing it, to running diagnostics. I just decided to give up.
After messing with it, I learned that the hard drive was still fine, but my computer was not picking it up. I learned that it would still occasionally pick it up when I ran diagnostics on it, but it would not load. Instead I decided to go with switching back to my old laptop. (Which was easier said than done.)
My old laptop had gotten fked by Ccleaner. I used it to clean up some space, but it deleted ALL known file associations. I couldn't download a fix because even though google chrome (miraculously) worked, NOTHING else did. From paint, to .rar, .exe, .xcf, .png EVERYTHING was unreadable. I thought all hope was lost, but luckily for me my room mate had a Windows 7 64 bit OS disc with him. Thanks to him I was able to format the c drive and clean install windows 7 on my old laptop.
Along this EXTREMELY LONG process I learned that even though this "old"-"new" laptop is the exact same model as the one I had been using, the person who sold it to my dad (the same person who sold the first one) ripped him off 1gb of ram. This laptop effectively only had 1gb of ram until I decided to steal one from my old computer hehe.
To wrap it up:
- I currently cannot access my old projects/hundreds of millions of graphics
- I learned what ram looks like.
- I learned what a HDD looks like.
- I now have a completely useless laptop laying around, with a not so useless hard drive.