Still Blink, Blink, Blink! ...With One Fortunate Happenstance

Monday resulted in no fix for the failed computer. Actually, I never had the time to work on finding a solution. Instead, I thought it best to pull the hard drive and try to back up the data using my older computer (the one that works).

Unfortunately, my old computer’s hard drives are not very large so I had to pick and choose what data was irreplaceable. Even still, there was not enough room to back it all up.

Enter the iPod. I have a 60Gb iPod that is not very full. How fortunate is that? I had to start iTunes in order to switch the iPod to data mode so it will be visible as a storage device. To my surprise, when iTunes loaded, it went to the internet to look up music track information.

“What information did it find,” you ask? Well, none other than that for 98 Degrees: The Collection album! I had forgotten that I had left the CD in the drive. All of a sudden, the CD was recognized as an audio CD instead of just a data CD (see previous rant here). Cool! Before doing anything else, I had iTunes rip it and transfer the album to the iPod! Woot! Told you I’d have that music on the iPod! OK, so it wasn’t anything I did per se but still….

So, the iPod finally gets more music and now I start a major data transfer to it. After about a minute, the transfer comes up with an estimated time of completion in about 220 minutes! Yuck! It was already 10:30 pm and starting to get a little past my bedtime. Oh well, I left it running but woke up around 3:00 am and turned the computer off since the transfer was finished. Funny how an earthquake will not wake me, but the thought of needing to turn the computer off does.

I will waste yet another night tonight trying to fix the damn thing. Now you are up-to-speed on my computer misadventures.

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When smoke comes out of your computer, blow on it until you see flames.