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My laptop has gone crappers. Guess where I was doing a ton of my coding of the geo work? Yep. Guess what's not backed up because it's not in the LAKEOSWEGO domain? Yep.
Fortunately, its problem involves the video drivers being worthless. Which is funny; it ran fine, had a nasty Explorer crash, and on reboot the video was garbage.
Why is this fortunate? Because I can save my files. I blind-navigated until I figured out what was going on, got it OUT of scandisk, got it OUT of starting in safe mode (I think - I'm not quite sure WHAT it started in, but that's okay), got it to a DOS prompt (start key - R for run - command - enter), and began copying files off to floppy disk.
Blindly. M. says this qualifies me to be a tech god of some sort. I thought it just made me a weird geek-type.
Wow, this is fun. Really, it is. Honest.
Erg. BUT, I may or may not lose a little email (probably not - it's just unreachable, not damaged, after all), but the source code is coming over to my desktop now.
Fortunately, its problem involves the video drivers being worthless. Which is funny; it ran fine, had a nasty Explorer crash, and on reboot the video was garbage.
Why is this fortunate? Because I can save my files. I blind-navigated until I figured out what was going on, got it OUT of scandisk, got it OUT of starting in safe mode (I think - I'm not quite sure WHAT it started in, but that's okay), got it to a DOS prompt (start key - R for run - command - enter), and began copying files off to floppy disk.
Blindly. M. says this qualifies me to be a tech god of some sort. I thought it just made me a weird geek-type.
Wow, this is fun. Really, it is. Honest.
Erg. BUT, I may or may not lose a little email (probably not - it's just unreachable, not damaged, after all), but the source code is coming over to my desktop now.
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