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I got my newest computer two years ago. It was difficult to get the larger photo files off the old one as I thought my only option was to burn CDs, and that can go wrong in all sorts of ways. I finally decided to make sure I had all 7gbs (thousands, from what I can tell) of photos off the other day and began the process of burning.

2gbs in and I need to take a break, so I leave the computer running while I’m doing other things. I get what seems to be the new windows blue screen, a kernel dump. Gotten a couple before, everything was fine, seems ok. So I reboot and I get a blinking cursor. I’m not as knowledgeable as I once was about computers, but I know enough to know this is NOT a good thing. 2 more reboots and another blinking cursor. On the 4th I get that it cannot read the hard drive.

At this point, I’ve just about panicked. A friend begins to walk me through a couple of preliminary steps to begin some sort of disc recovery and nothing seems to be working. A few more blinking cursors of death, and then all of a sudden after a few minutes of one, Windows appears. To my shock, it finally boots up. Luckily, I was able to get everything off in spite of being rather stupid about waiting 2 years to do it. I just thought it rather hilarious that it decided to give me this kind of trouble the night I began moving the remainder of things off.

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