26 years old, Bipolar Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, am legally blind, and am a born again follower of Jesus Christ! I like Pinkamena/Pinkie and Fluttershy best. Send me a message if you wanna chat!
Hey all, it's been about 8 years since i was last active here or watched MLP, but I've still logged in regularly to see if i get any DMs or comments.
I still do writing but just for other series. It's all posted on my Ao3 account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Shadrake/pseuds/Shadrake
No, not MLP content currently, sorry to disappoint 
but I realized that I may as well share it here just for those interested. Whether I'll start writing here again remains to be seen (I'm not going to force myself to write something I'm not currently interested in), but I've finally started taking a hammer to that wall that keeps me from working on creative pursuits in my life.
PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE MESSAGE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ACTUAL LIFE STUFF!
Two years it's been.... wow. I gotta be honest with myself and you all, it's probably not going to be finished. But I'll explain everything about the story, and much more importantly, explain some real life things you should all know and will probably be interested in knowing.
So many of you may be wondering why Unnatural Existence hasn't been updated in an entire 16 months. Well, I'll do my best to explain.
1. I'm not too into MLP anymore. To be honest, I only watched 6 episodes of season 5 and nothing at all of season 6. Though I have many reasons more for that than just not being very into the show that I don't think I really need to go into here.
So I've been reading a lot of pony fanfiction again lately. I'm looking at my fanfics too and they're not as bad as I remembered. In fact, I've started writing new chapters for my stories! 
I finally got a new laptop!
It's really cruddy, and I owe my dad $210, but I have a new laptop!
I'm still getting used to it and resetting up everything important that I had before, but it should be ready soon.
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Well, if you have a thumb drive (one of those 4gb or whatever flash memory things) you could use that. If not, you can email the story to yourself or a gmail account that you make and then copy-paste from it on the new machine.
Depending on how functional the laptop is you could use something like dropbox or google docs to sync the files between computers, if its working enough for a thumb drive that'd work as well. If you want to get technical and the hard drive is still working it shouldn't be too hard to take out the old hard drive and put it in an external enclosure which for 2.5 inch drives(laptop drives) could be gotten for about 7$ on newegg.
3112039 well yeah, but the problem is my old laptop won't even start up, so I can't.
3112041 Well, my laptop won't even start up. The harddrives still work though.
usb hard drive cable and run the old hard drive as a second drive for the computer that way temporarily?
3112062 Ok this is a bit extreme but if you want to work with what you have you could install the old drive in the new laptop(assuming they are both using 2.5 inch drives and its not something funky like an ultrabook) and get the files off of there with a live linux distro(I recommend linux mint if you prefer a windows like environment out of the box) and then move the files from the linux distro thumbdrive back onto the main computer once you've re-installed its normal hard drive.
I appreciate that this might seem a little daunting but without an external hard drive enclosure that's about the best I can think of. There should be tutorials for how to do this and if you want I could find them for you.
Another alternative if your laptop has Esata would be to get an adapter for that but I'm not sure if that's as universally useful as an external enclosure.
3112084 huh?
3112096 I actually have an external hardrive that I used to get most of my important stuff onto my new laptop. It's just I wrote the chapter AFTER that so the chapter is the only thing I'm missing.
3112112 Does it look like you could open up the external drive by taking off screws? I wouldn't advise trying to force it open but if it looks like you might be able to open it up or pull something off that looks like this:
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Then you could plug your old hard drive into the external hard drive enclosure and just use it as a normal external drive.
(thats the best picture I could find for an external SATA interface, you're looking for the end on the right)
Rewriting it will probably be faster. Laptop hardware is even less standardized than desktop PCs are, so getting at that hard drive without putting it into another one that still works will be easier than trying to rig up some kind of external hookup. Even if you were a professional, that kind of thing of thing is a bitch to get running.
3112148 If its a 2.5 inch mechanical drive it should be completely standard and still perfectly useable as an external drive if you're willing to pull it out of there.
Copy and paste the first half to an unpublished chapter on fimfiction. Than copy and paste the second half.
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If you have free connectors of the appropriate kind on the laptop you want to hook it up to. Otherwise it gets a lot harder - you can't just jam a USB cable in there and expect it to work.
3112181 I don't have acess to the first half that's the problem.
3112148 ugh....man, I REEEEALLY don't want to have to do that. It's hard enough to get myself to write, let alone rewriting something. It's demoralizing...
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Well, you could pull it out and buy a 2.5" hard drive docking station, but I assume that if you had those extra 80$, you wouldn't be using a 120$ hand-me-down right now instead of buying a new one instead.
3112326 I'm using a brand new, $380 dollar laptop.
But yeah, I don't exactly have money. I used all $150 dollars I had, and still owe my dad a ton of money since he paid the rest.
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Problem is that low-end notebooks don't usually come with free slots. If it does, I would recommend checking what kind of data bus your old laptop's HD used and whether your new one has a free hard drive slot of the same type. If the problem wasn't the hard drive itself, that'd probably be your best bet. If they aren't compatible, though, or there simply aren't any free slots, you're kinda out of luck. You could buy an external drive conversion kit, I guess? Those are cheaper, but need to be assembled out of the old hard drive and a bunch of loose parts. I don't even know if they make them for 2.5" drives at all, to be honest.
3112326 Sadly, this is probably what the situation looks like.
Hmm. Maybe you could take it to a store like Best Buy, or some other kind of place that repairs computers. Most of them are set up to extract data from dead machines and/or hard drives. A quick trip to one of those might cost less than buying your own enclosure.
Either way, though, it isn't going to be free.
Re-writing may be the more economical option.
3112458 Yeah I wanted to get a laptop with an extra hardrive space, but only the super expensive ones have that, so this one doesn't.
This laptop is actually pretty good for being a cheap one, though, since the screen is 15.6 inches and it has a fast processor.
Really, the only thing I'm missing is the 1300 words I wrote for chapter 4 already...ugh.
3112459 yeah, I know I should just rewrite it, but I don't have the motivation to do that, it'd be too demoralizing...
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I've never really seen a place that did it for less than 300+€, but maybe it's different in the US. Those "data recovery service" type of places usually really make you pay through your nose, because they know that if you come to them at all, the data is important enough to you that you don't really have any choice except to pay for it anyway, no matter what they ask.
3112498 Really? You disliked all my stories? Why?
3112529 okay, so you didn't have a reason. You just did it to spite me. Fine, I see how it is.
3112546 Well if you're not going to tell me them, then to me that means you have no reason to. Because I wasn't given a reason.
3112513 I'm not American.
3112561
Best Buy is, though.
3112569 Someone who throws a dislike everywhere in a petty attempt to mess with something needs to grow up.
Now leave me alone.
3112570 Well that's true.
To prevent this from ever happening again, you should find some way to backup your work. I would suggest using a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox. I use Google Drive myself, because you get 10 gigs free with a gmail account, Docs don't count towards memory usage, Fimfiction has a Docs import feature, and the sharing options are great for working with pre-readers or editors. I'm not very confident you can save chapter four from that hard drive, it sounds like it's dead. But if you still want to try (it'll probably be easier to just rewrite it), this is what I've got:
So the problem here is that your old laptop wont turn on anymore after making grinding noises, and you need to get files off the hard drive. There are about 3 things in a laptop that might make that noise I can think of: the fan, the disk drive, and the hard drive. If we're very lucky, it was either the fan or the disk drive that broke and your computer just isn't turning on because it's smart enough to tell that they're broken and is trying to prevent further damage. More likely however, what happened is that your hard drive bit the dust and chapter 4 is screwed.
In the case that the hard drive isn't dead though, you have two options:
#1 take it to a computer shop where they can recover the data (best solution, but will take much $$$)
#2 if you have an old laptop lying around you can transplant the Hard Drive to the other laptop and hopefully boot from it like it was your broken one. Don't use your new laptop, you'll void the warranty and there's a chance you might break it. If that doesn't work your drive really is dead, or you were running 64 bit windows and this is only a 32 bit pc. If that's true and you have a flash drive, you can make a Linux LiveDrive(this will erase anything already on the flash drive). Then boot from it. To do that, turn off the laptop, put in the flash drive, then watch for a "press this key to enter setup" at the very beginning, and press the key it says. Then figure out how to move around in the menu it gives you (probably the arrow keys and enter to select) and find something like "boot order" then make sure usb disk is at the top. exit and save your changes, and you'll boot into an Ubuntu desktop. On the left side there will be a button that looks like a folder, click it. That will open a file manager window. On the left of that window, there should be a "places" panel. On that panel look for things with hard drive icons. Find the biggest one, that's probably your hard drive. Click it, and congratulations! If you've gotten this far it means your hard drive works and you can save the file! From here, just find the file you want to save and copy it (good ol' ctrl-c) then paste it to the flash drive, you can probably get to it by typing "/" into the address bar. To get it off the flash drive, just put it in on your new laptop and treat it like any other flash drive, if you put it in the right place it should be in the very top folder somewhere.