I really hate to post this right after Rebecca's post, but something tragic happened.. Last week my computer crashed and wasent able to fix it myself. I believe it wasent a technical issue but a virus of sort that made my computer lock up from even getting to my desktop. It just kept sending me back to my XP log in (It was still an Windows XP). So all of my thousands of songs of music, my album photo collection of friends and family and my huge archive of TG pictures that I saved up over the 3 years of having my computer are all gone, locked away! It was sort of my fault since I kept downloading torrents online and my shitty ass norton Anti-virus stopped responding with updates. Ive managed to only upload some pictures in my google account album---but not many. I can try to salvage all of the pictures that I had before from the internet and make a brand new folder in my new computer that I got. I lost my photoshop but luckaly I had somebody who still had the copy of photoshop and the serial number. My Tina tag that I stamp on all my caps is gone but I can always just copy one out of my old ones and convert it to a .psd(photoshop document).
I can really focus on making better and more hardcore captions this time around since I got a way to hacking into a pay-pornsite. ;)
I'll see if I can take it to geeksquad and see if they can 'break the lock' on the situation of my old computer. I just need the money!
And those of you who Ive promised to make personalized captions for you, it ok, I can still do that. Your pics are the kind that I can salvage from the internet!
Gotta go!
My WinXP notebook died about 1½ weeks ago (cracked motherboard). It was a standard 2.5" IDE notebook harddrive, so I just slipped it into a cheap USB enclosure:
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and was able to browse it fine and move all my old data off. And if you can browse the old drive, Adobe may be able to talk you through locating your PS serial too. Just be sure to have a good antivirus installed on your new computer, like:
http://free.avg.com/
PS Good luck and let me know if you need any help.
ReplyDeleteI'd avoid geeksquad. They're known to peruse what's on drives that they address. They've also been known to report "suspicious" files (like pr0n) to the local police.
ReplyDeletetell me more about his USB inclosure. It browses your computer for files and automatically stores stuff in it?
ReplyDeleteI have most of my forbidden stuff on an external hard drive, but believe it or not, some months ago it got stolen. Fortunately I have copies of all my caps online (on blogger and on Rachel's Haven), so all I lost was my future capping material. Bummer! Now I have two external hard drives. I keep a separate back-up copy of all files on the second one. Fortunately you can get several hundred GB for a reasonable price these days.
ReplyDeleteWhy dont you try booting with a Linux live CD like Ubuntu on your old PC and see if you can copy the stuff via a USB drive. Or you could try plugging in the old Hard Drive to an IDE/SATA (Based on if your Hard Drive's connection) slot in your new PC(If the Motherboard has one) and try browsing it. Linux would be safer if it was a virus.
ReplyDeleteI sent you an email with more info about the enclosure route.
ReplyDeleteThere are several USB enclosures available but I will warn you that you need to be careful accessing an infected hard drive (probably the best way would be to use a CD-ROM boot and transfer to a seperate hard drive). This is due to the very likely posability of infecting the new host system. if you would like more information or help please email me at cyber_warp_535 {AT} ya_hoo {DOT} com (remove the _s and replace {AT} and {DOT} as they say)
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your concern! I've been talking to Josie about the inclosure and I believe I'm going to be ok! I'll let all of you know when I do retrieve all of my stuff back. Thanks again!!!
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If this is still unresolved I second the anonymous comment about a linux live CD. V easy to use. Your next laptop should be a Mac.
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Great reeading
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