More computer crap

[la_belle_laide]

Basically the guy at the Geek Squad data retrieval place said that the Geek Squad guy who came here the other night was WAY WRONG on the price and it would be more like $500 andmaybe even $1500. And that if I tried to do it myself or have someone else do it, it could possibly wreck what was left of my data on my hard drive.

Also, Windows MovieMaker 2 is maybe the worst program in creation. At first I thought the random crashing problems were due to the K-lite codec pack I had installed. So I uninstalled it and then got the XP codec pack. The files still work, but now MovieMaker hangs every few seconds, quits randomly, and I've got this random thing popping up on my screen that says "AVI splitter" or something like that and I have absolutely no idea what it is.

The upside is that I talked to my Dad about this and he thinks I can put a claim in with LIPA to get them to pay for the wrecked hard drive. I doubt they will, but at least it's something to try.

Meantime, I hate Windows MovieMaker with the fire of a thousand suns.

Comments

[heywood.livejournal.com]

Nonbooting is a relatively easy problem to solve. As for the clicking, when you had it in the machine, was it making periodic clunking noises like tapping hollow metal, or was it a higher pitched click-click-click?

I'm always a little leery of people who say "only we can fix it", etc. At worst, it's had a head crash and it's fucked anyway. Running hot is comparatively normal for hard drives these days. Did you get the hard drive back, or have they still got it?


(BTW - AVI splitter is a program that separates the video and audio streams from the movie file and directs them to the appropriate codecs for output. Is it popping up in the tray, near the clock, or in a message box?)

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

I didn't actually hear any clicking; the Geek Squad guy just told me about it. I still have the hard drive. I'm thinking of just taking it down to Best Buy where they have all the gutted computers and just asking them to hook it up to see what happens.

That screen that popped up was a black message box with a red diagonal line through it. it's since stopped. O_o