OMG, got back from Christmas duties and my laptop wouldn't start! No operating system. I eventually found a recovery CD, and apparently there was no hard drive!
Okay, I'm very bad, I haven't backed up in a year.
Sheesh!
The other day, I was in a new age shop, and the woman who owned the shop said there was a particular stone that I should have. I'm not really into crystals although I am a Reiki practitioner, but I got the stone.
While I was sat there stressed out with my malfunctioning laptop, my wife said the crystal was 'crying out' to me, and I should put it on the laptop. I did, and it fired up into Windows straight away. This is pretty spooky, I'd spent quite a while unsuccessfully powering up the laptop repeatedly.
I should add that I do Reiki electronic equipment from time to time when it doesn't work... and it seems to do the trick a lot of the time.
For those of you that are wondering, it was an Amethyst crystal that rescued my hard drive today.
So I have 45Gb worth of data to back up, and a DVD drive that takes one hour to back up 4 Gb. I managed to spend 4 hours just now backing up about 16Gb, and I realised that they were all coasters because I changed the foldernames to be organised so I knew I'd backed them up. Unfortunately, I changed the names after I chose the files in Nero but before I actually burnt them. Doh!
It's now 6am and I have to drive 200 miles tomorrow lunchtime, and I've barely backed anything up. This is not good.
I guess I'm going to have to bring the laptop with me and pray it boots up a second time when I get there.
Wish me luck, and back up often! |