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Oct. 25th, 2009 12:45 pmSo this is what happened.
I was attempting to reinstall some stuff I needed for school, namely Raptor SmallBASIC and, because the system restore returned it to the crappy 30 day trial, Microsoft Office. As I was doing these things, I suddenly got a message. 'Your system is low on space. Please remove some files in order to install this product.'
My response was a bit 'wtf' because I have a MASSIVE hard drive in this thing. I went in to 'ohgod there'e something NEW wrong' mode, but quickly went in and ditched the HP Game Suite that came with the restore as well as some other programs I wasn't using. Checked my hard drive. I only had 6GB left of space. Continued wtf-ing because that just didn't make sense. If I'd removed everything, wouldn't my used space be tiny? especially if I'd only grabbed some 20GB of music so far?
Well I thought, mainly because I was tired, it was an issue of compression and maybe left over files. I was getting irritated at it so I set it to clean up the left over crap, which barely did anything, then set it to defrag and went to bed.
I woke up at around 6ish to go to the bathroom and checked on it. "You need at least 15% hard drive space to perform this option. There is only 2% available. Please remove files before de-fragmenting."
Again. What the -fuck-.
But then it dawns on me in some sort of weird half awake state. If I downloaded 20GB of music and added it to the massive amount that I had before, plus all the videos, pictures, and everything else, PLUS whatever was put back on the computer and everything that I've installed SINCE then...
that would make roughly 200GB of space, wouldn't it? Which would mean...
My stuff exists SOMEWHERE on this hard drive. It was only the folder that was removed from the desktop! I mean, long shot, but I give it a try and search for "We Are One" which was a song from Kelly Sweet and an album I hadn't re-downloaded yet. If I was right, it would still be somewhere on the hard drive, right?
Lo and behold, it was there, and when I went up I found the folder sitting in another section of the computer, nothing gone, nothing missing. I'm convinced it was a damn miracle or something!
But in all seriousness this is probably one of the better things that's happened to me in a while. I've been so stressed and trying so hard to just keep it to myself because I know other people are dealing with their own shit. It's not making me the most personable person right now, though. I've been pretty verbally quiet, not exactly in the mood for conversation, and I've definitely snapped at people who really didn't deserve it.
( Time for Ramblings )
I was attempting to reinstall some stuff I needed for school, namely Raptor SmallBASIC and, because the system restore returned it to the crappy 30 day trial, Microsoft Office. As I was doing these things, I suddenly got a message. 'Your system is low on space. Please remove some files in order to install this product.'
My response was a bit 'wtf' because I have a MASSIVE hard drive in this thing. I went in to 'ohgod there'e something NEW wrong' mode, but quickly went in and ditched the HP Game Suite that came with the restore as well as some other programs I wasn't using. Checked my hard drive. I only had 6GB left of space. Continued wtf-ing because that just didn't make sense. If I'd removed everything, wouldn't my used space be tiny? especially if I'd only grabbed some 20GB of music so far?
Well I thought, mainly because I was tired, it was an issue of compression and maybe left over files. I was getting irritated at it so I set it to clean up the left over crap, which barely did anything, then set it to defrag and went to bed.
I woke up at around 6ish to go to the bathroom and checked on it. "You need at least 15% hard drive space to perform this option. There is only 2% available. Please remove files before de-fragmenting."
Again. What the -fuck-.
But then it dawns on me in some sort of weird half awake state. If I downloaded 20GB of music and added it to the massive amount that I had before, plus all the videos, pictures, and everything else, PLUS whatever was put back on the computer and everything that I've installed SINCE then...
that would make roughly 200GB of space, wouldn't it? Which would mean...
My stuff exists SOMEWHERE on this hard drive. It was only the folder that was removed from the desktop! I mean, long shot, but I give it a try and search for "We Are One" which was a song from Kelly Sweet and an album I hadn't re-downloaded yet. If I was right, it would still be somewhere on the hard drive, right?
Lo and behold, it was there, and when I went up I found the folder sitting in another section of the computer, nothing gone, nothing missing. I'm convinced it was a damn miracle or something!
But in all seriousness this is probably one of the better things that's happened to me in a while. I've been so stressed and trying so hard to just keep it to myself because I know other people are dealing with their own shit. It's not making me the most personable person right now, though. I've been pretty verbally quiet, not exactly in the mood for conversation, and I've definitely snapped at people who really didn't deserve it.
( Time for Ramblings )
