Well today the new computer that we bought last October shit the bed. It had some sort of warning that the hard drive was not working correctly and that it needed to be checked for "consistency" whatever the hell that is. Every time we booted the computer this warning would come up and say the following:
Checking file system on C:
Type of file is NTFS
Volume label is S3A8371D004
One of you disks need to be checked for consistency.
Maybe one of Tinas Computer Geek friends has an idea what this means.....
Then it said that you can cancel the disk check by pressing any key, and I dont even have an any key...Nyuk, Nyuk.
I presseed the space bar and the computer went into a normal boot....
OK so thats the end of it right. Nope. WE decide that its something that needs the help of the Toshiba rep at the end of the 1-800 number. So I call their number and I get the call center conveniently located in Mumbai and I speak to Someone about my problem. Now, I have a problem with most things computer but to add the Indian accent to the mix makes for interesting times.
According to Rajesh I needed to take my computer back to when it was first born and rehatch things from scratch. This involves some sort of smoke and mirrors black magic shit that includes losing all of what we have downloaded since we got the damn machine.
So here I am now after many hours of this thing rebooting itself just to get it back to the point I was at 4 Months ago.
My point? Whatever happened to having "stuff" that we could fix ourselves. There was a time that just about anything in the world could be repaired with pliers and a roll of duct tape. Now everyones a "technician", you cant get anything fixed right away and you cant repair anything more intricate than a floor mat.
Maybe technology isnt so great afterall.......
On the upside, I cleaned out the trap under the sink and it works great. Theres a limit to my expert mechanical knowledge. Computers need not apply......
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