My computer is dead. · 7:34am Oct 28th, 2017
Thankfully, I do have another computer, which is what I am typing this on right now, and it is a computer I used before my dad let me have the other one. This is, however, an enormous setback because I have lost a lot of ideas I have written down on a word document for stories, specifically newer ideas I came up with for Eye of the Storm.
So, around 9 o'clock this evening, I was watching YouTube videos when suddenly my laptop had a blue screen of death. It's not the first time that has happened, so I go to restart. It begins booting up, but gets stuck on the 'Starting Windows' screen for quite some time. I try rebooting again, and this time it gives me the prompt to start the Startup Repair, which I do. It takes some time, but it tells me to finally restart, which I do. Nothing.
I go back to the startup repair and it gives me a prompt to revert to a previous version, which it then just says after I click yes that it is attempting repairs and no such effort is made to restore (that I know of, I will never know at this point).
Long story short, the computer I used for about the last two or three years is now refusing to start up and I've lost significant amounts of data. Thankfully I DID transfer a bunch of stuff over with a flash drive a couple months back, and I can't be more thankful that I did, but I still lost a lot that was saved afterward. Not to mention I had not yet transferred videos of mine over, so those are likely now gone. I may try and talk to a friend's father because he knows computers and has helped my mom out in the past, so maybe he can help recover anything that I need, though I'm just going to expect the worst and that what I transferred before is all that can be salvaged.
This does severely affect writing, because now I have to write everything saved from a couple months ago to now; this includes stuff I have pre-written for future chapters, so I can't exactly rewrite those word for word.
There is hope, however. I am getting a new computer for Christmas, and should be back up and running by then I'm thinking. It, however, does not help that I was hoping the now-dead laptop would last until then. That said, there isn't much I can do at this point but to physically recover everything from scratch, and potentially have somebody try and recover the hard drive for me if at all possible.
They are not gone dude.
Ok, all you have to do is pull your old computer apart. Remove the hard drive from it.
Now off amazon order...
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-SATA-Portable-Adapter-Supports/dp/B014OSN2VW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509365992&sr=8-3&keywords=internal+hard+drive+to+usb+cable
That will let you use your internal hard drive as a external USB one. When you plug it in, it will show up as "drive D" or something of the sort. Browse to...
X(drive letter) -> users -> (your profile name) You will see may folders. You want "Desktop" and "Documents" and perhaps "Downloads"