Erm...

[byslantedlight]

My laptop is ticking. That's probably not a good thing, is it? (And no, I didn't leave a clock underneath it...) Actually ticking, as regularly as a clock... It never has before... I wonder how worried I should be...

*gulps*

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[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Do a disk check to see if any errors show up, and clone your hard drive.
Macrium Reflect (free version) is great, but you'd need a big enough external hard drive.
Make a rescue disk, and if your hard drive fails, you can use that and the backup to get everything back the way it was on a new hard drive, which is much cheaper than a whole new laptop!

But hopefully it was just running a task in the background, and everything is fine!

And I wish you snow! Our's was a one-day wonder, and we are back to 40F, but it's nice and sunny!
Time to start cooking pretty soon! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hmmn, Disk Management says that my disks are healthy - presumably it'd show up there if they weren't? Where in particular would you expect me to go to do a disk check? (In case what I just looked at wasn't a disk check?!)

Clone my harddrive? Make a rescue disk? Erm... I'll go away and look up how to do that tomorrow... *g* I never thought of a new harddrive for it - though a quick google brings up instructions on how to install one - eeep!

But mostly - I'm hoping it was just running something in the background... It's all quiet now...

Quiet outside too, and still starry... I don't think we'll have snow tomorrow, though maybe ice... Hooray for you having a one-day-wonder of snow, which is better than none at all, right? And then for sunniness... *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Where in particular would you expect me to go to do a disk check?
It depends on your operating system, but usually you can find it by going to
"My computer" and right clicking on the drive you want to check, choose "Properties" and then something like "Tools".

If you install Macrium Reflect, and have a cd burner, making a rescue disk is very easy, and if your computer ever doesn't start up, you pop that into the cd/dvd drive and restart. From there you can install your back-up, if you made one and saved it on an external hard drive.
IIRC, you could also transfer the drive image to a new hard drive if needed.
Can you tell I was caught out in the past with no backup, and hated losing everything? ;)

And yes, I loved that one day of snow! As far as I can remember, this is the earliest we've ever had snow in Eugene. Hoping for more this winter!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

See, now I knew that and I always, always forget it! Right click on the drive - thank you! I need to write some NaNo now, before bed, but I'll have a go this weekend...

Thanks for the heads-up about Macrium Reflect too - I shall have a look at that as well... And yeah - I've been through lost-everything thing too, when my uni-laptop was fried a couple of years ago. In fact the harddrive was saved, but not until my landlady revealed that she knew a woman who could... *g* In between then - about two years - I started almost again... luckily it wasn't *too* long after I'd moved from Alaska, and I'd had my Alaska stuff backed up to move in any case, and I had also backed up my files not too long ago - though not recently enough that I didn't lose things... a lesson, a lesson! I never did look into hard drive recovery and backup though, so there's another thing to do! We depend so much on our computers these days, don't we - and really, perhaps, we shouldn't... *gulp*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

perhaps, we shouldn't... *gulp*

Oh, yeah!
It was kind of nice only using a computer occasionally while traveling this summer, but even then, it was kind of invaluable for keeping in contact, meeting people etc.
I'm sure if it all went away tomorrow, it would be hard for a while, but we'd all somehow adjust again.