Due largely to my own stupidity (and evil twats on BitTorrent), my laptop got a virus the other day. Two, in fact, according to AVG which just kinda sat there and looked at them, before whimpering a bit and slinking off in admission of defeat. One of them appeared to just give me some delightful links on my desktop (possibly of the type Aethelread was attempting to obtain here) whereas the other just decided to totally fuck everything up. Basically, it wouldn't let me do anything; change any settings, open any programs, look at my task manager, etc. I couldn't do a system restore or even start up in safe mode. So I consulted the expert - my dad. Who managed - with the best of intentions - to get it stuck in a neverending restart loop. So. We formatted the bastard.
Which has worked, but of course has left me bereft of 3 years worth of 'stuff'. Downloads, programs, assignments, pictures, music, favourite websites, blah blah blah. I still haven't remembered everything I've lost so am just hoping none of it was irreplaceable. This is also my own stupid fault, since I hadn't backed it up. My dad already shouted at me about it, don't worry.
Anyway, I also lost quite a few drafts of blog things. I will get back round to re-writing them, but I have homework from uni this week so things might be a bit quiet for a few days.
On the plus side, the stupid thing works much quicker with all the crap taken off, and I'm wondering if I can live with it being back-to-basic. Hmm.
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Oh, much, much sympathy. I hope nothing too vital/ irreplaceable is gone. Don't beat yourself up too much about not backing up - nobody actually remembers about it until just fractionally too late.
So from now on you will be backing up your stuff on a regular basis, I might hope. As a side note, maybe you can get a Linux-based recovery CD that can fix superficial hard drive bugs (which this looks like, I had three in four months on my new laptop before I finally got the company to send me a new hard drive) without having to format the whole thing. Btw, doesn't Blogger have something similar to WordPress Drafts, where you can save your blog drafts online?
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