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

[(Anonymous)]

Is the hard drive physically damaged, or is the operating system screwed? If it's not PHYSICALLY damaged, you could download a file recovery software to at least try and save your story. Those programs are kind of "last resort" attempts, but I have used them to success in the past.

Basically you hook it up as a slave to a working computer, and run the program on the working computer. It "reads" the damaged hard drive and pulls what files it can off. Let me know if that sounds like something you might need to do, ok?

[lauraceleste.livejournal.com]

That was me, btw - I thought I was logged in and wasn't :(

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

'm not sure, because they wouldn't really tell me anything. THe only thing the guy yesterday told me was that if I tried to mess with it on my own, it woul ddefinitely be damaged even more and cost me more money to fix. >_> And it's not just the story I want--there are tons of GBs on there of stuff I need to save.