“Two weeks” will the be time until I get my computer back, according the Toshiba service representative. Noooooo! My Tablet PC is like essential to my education. It’s great to be able to take clean notes and write up problem sets without the constraint of paper. Also, I set up my computer in a good way to maximize my productivity (minus the procrastinations caused by the computer).
*Sigh*
Toshiba will most likely end up reformatting my hard drive, so I spent a lot of today running around trying to get someone to help me back up the data. The problem was that my laptop’s hard drive has an SATA (15-pin) connector which isn’t that common yet. The cool thing was that I sent an email out to my house and a lot of people responded offering to help. However, not everyone had the solution I needed. I’m going to try to work with a few people tomorrow to get my data backed up (Luckily, I made backups last month. However, I’d still like to have my recent data).
But what in the meanwhile? Fortunately, Eric T. (previously mentioned on this blog) had haphazardly put together a computer that was sitting in the corner of the computer lab unused since it still had to be polished up with software and some hardware tweaks. So I managed to “borrow” the computer for a while to tweak it up while at the same time using it for my own purposes. Once I get my laptop shipped back, this desktop machine will be be gloriously returned to the computer lab with perfectly configured software :).
So anyway, just when I was about to get back on schedule after a tough midterms week (or two), this laptop problem suddenly pushed me behind schedule again. That means I must get to work now…