So, I passed 50000 hits, and it is now 2010. We live in the future now! Yippee!
Last night was spent drinking margaritas and watching Land of the Lost, District 9, and Monsters vs Aliens.Also, my younger brother completely fucked up my main laptop, to the point in which it can't even boot into safe mode. Yes, that's right - he even fucked up safe mode. Oddly enough, it *could* boot normally, but if you tried to do anything (and I mean anything) it would freeze. And when I say anything, I do mean anything. Practically the only thing that it could do was copy files from the C: drive to a USB stick, and you'd only get about a 100 second window for that. So basically, all of this morning was spent restarting my computer, and copying stuff onto my flashdrive as fast as possible hoping to get as much as possible on it before it froze.In a sense, it wasn't your normal freezing either. All programs simply became "not responding", one by one.In the end, I decided to restore to factory conditions, something that alas, I am very familiar with. At least my computer isn't bogged down with shitty spyware anymore!Here's to hoping that the full restore works (this was written from a much older laptop).
Full restore never worked for me, but then again my old computer was in a way worse situation than yours.
Easy mode: format and reinstall windowsFull factory restore is basically formatting and reinstalling, only from an emergency partition (at least it is with my computer)
Also, hooray! It worked! I am typing this from my fully-functioning laptop!Oh nevermind I thought you meant system restore xD
congrats on getting your laptop back btwI remember back when my brother dropped my laptop. Wouldn't boot at all, even in safe mode. Then I tried to do some diagnostic and I get a big:
Yeah, newer(/fancier) laptops actually detect when they're in freefall and disengage the read head to stop that happening - lovely! Shouldn't be dropping your laptop anyway, but maybe one day we'll be able to! (Sort of like how you throw your mobile around without thinking - at least, I do.)
it's fun when you can throw a laptop on the floor as hard as you want and it still works. (mine can't though it would probably smash into a bajillion pieces.)
Yeah, well when your laptop is two years old and you take it everywhere with you, it tends to cry when you drop it.
It's a wonder my laptop is still alive today. I'd better start backing files up….