When I woke at 4 that night, I looked at that small screen. It was glowing and showing my idle desktop wallpaper. I smiled I guess, thinking that finally its saved. Finally its working again. I shut the lid and went to sleep again.
It was the evening before that night when it all started. I sat down infront of my lovely blue-white lappy and when it asked for my password, with no premonition of any dreaded things, I typed it in followed by a hit on the return key. And that was the moment when hell froze. Actually my IdeaPad did. For several minutes I waited to see that wallpaper, "bliss" as windows call it, but all I could see was "Loading your personal settings". I had no other choice left other than to make the forced shut down. It irked me. It irks me if anything does not behave like it should and that too at the time when I need it to. Several re-runs of the same drama did not yield anything fruitful and frustrated I packed my IdeaPad back in my bag. Thought of having a look at it at my leisure in the comfort of my home.
Now at my home, you just can not start working as soon as you reach. There are few choruses you have to do before you settle in and start resting yourself. After all my family members, especially my little niece, do not see me the whole day and I need to give them some time too. So it was not before 11 that I could start to have a look at the problem in hand. The first thing that I used to do when I was in college at such times was to format the disk and reinstall the OS. But here I couldn't do that. The reason of concern was the data that was there in my hard disk. Apart from some very important personal data, those pictures, videos and the application bank that I have made in past 5 years, the thing was that it contained critical official data too which I could not afford to lose. Even having an external hard disk was not of any help as I could not copy the data until my laptop works for one last time. Tried to run it in safe mode and once I was there, I tried to uninstall one particular application, which was causing the problem according to me. But that was where I screwed it big time. My lappy refused to operate in safe mode too. Irritation took over all other feelings and I left the Ideapad to get restarted in safe mode one last time and went to sleep, not bothering whats gonna happen?
when I woke up at 4 I saw the screen showing the wallpaper "Bliss". I thought it started to work and shut it down. Now that is where being sleep deprived hurts you real bad. What should have I done there? I should have taken the backup of the hard drive and then shut it down, which I did not do because my mind wasn't working. And in the morning when I got up, my lappy did not. There was no time to attend to it, as I had to rush to office. What happened in the office will constitute the second part of this post. Stay tuned....
It was the evening before that night when it all started. I sat down infront of my lovely blue-white lappy and when it asked for my password, with no premonition of any dreaded things, I typed it in followed by a hit on the return key. And that was the moment when hell froze. Actually my IdeaPad did. For several minutes I waited to see that wallpaper, "bliss" as windows call it, but all I could see was "Loading your personal settings". I had no other choice left other than to make the forced shut down. It irked me. It irks me if anything does not behave like it should and that too at the time when I need it to. Several re-runs of the same drama did not yield anything fruitful and frustrated I packed my IdeaPad back in my bag. Thought of having a look at it at my leisure in the comfort of my home.
Now at my home, you just can not start working as soon as you reach. There are few choruses you have to do before you settle in and start resting yourself. After all my family members, especially my little niece, do not see me the whole day and I need to give them some time too. So it was not before 11 that I could start to have a look at the problem in hand. The first thing that I used to do when I was in college at such times was to format the disk and reinstall the OS. But here I couldn't do that. The reason of concern was the data that was there in my hard disk. Apart from some very important personal data, those pictures, videos and the application bank that I have made in past 5 years, the thing was that it contained critical official data too which I could not afford to lose. Even having an external hard disk was not of any help as I could not copy the data until my laptop works for one last time. Tried to run it in safe mode and once I was there, I tried to uninstall one particular application, which was causing the problem according to me. But that was where I screwed it big time. My lappy refused to operate in safe mode too. Irritation took over all other feelings and I left the Ideapad to get restarted in safe mode one last time and went to sleep, not bothering whats gonna happen?
when I woke up at 4 I saw the screen showing the wallpaper "Bliss". I thought it started to work and shut it down. Now that is where being sleep deprived hurts you real bad. What should have I done there? I should have taken the backup of the hard drive and then shut it down, which I did not do because my mind wasn't working. And in the morning when I got up, my lappy did not. There was no time to attend to it, as I had to rush to office. What happened in the office will constitute the second part of this post. Stay tuned....
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