A crisis averted
Jan. 10th, 2008 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerLast night, with great trepidation, I turned on my home laptop to see if I'd still get that "cannot locate operating system" message.
It booted up normally, although the wifi was (temporarily) out.
So relieved! I'll probably invest in a desktop now to replace that one, just in case the hard drive is going bad. The fan has always been funky (and loud) on the laptop, and we think it may have failed long enough to overheat the drive or a board and cause the crash.
Tomorrow night, I'll double check that all critical information is backed up. Danny has everything set up for backups on my machine, but you never know. Since I'm turning it off now, I don't know when the system will do the backups.
It booted up normally, although the wifi was (temporarily) out.
So relieved! I'll probably invest in a desktop now to replace that one, just in case the hard drive is going bad. The fan has always been funky (and loud) on the laptop, and we think it may have failed long enough to overheat the drive or a board and cause the crash.
Tomorrow night, I'll double check that all critical information is backed up. Danny has everything set up for backups on my machine, but you never know. Since I'm turning it off now, I don't know when the system will do the backups.
