Zenneth (zennx)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-17 22:17:59 UTC
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My week so far:
>Aunt, Uncle and cousins (Sam & the twins) come over for 1 week vacation
>me and Myra take Aunt and Uncle to the river for a swim
>return at night
>Sam is in tears
>one of the twins managed to drop a hammer on her laptop and now it won't turn on
>do the usual check up
>it's a HDD problem (probably dead, most likely boot sectors are damaged)
>take a 4h drive and buy a new Hard Drive, no HDD of equal size at shop, decide to take an SSD instead
>install SSD, it shows signs of life
>all systems nominal, only damage was on HDD (and a dent on the case, but it's metallic so I can buff it out later)
>install old HDD on a external case (bought at store)
>chkdsk; attempt to recover data;
>no data is recoverable, but the HDD will probably be usable as an external from now on
somehow the hammer landed on the laptop just right so it would only cause a surge and wipe it clean
It's was a million-to-one chance
mfw I remember million-to-one chances happen nine-times-out-of-ten