Hello people. After two weeks, I am finally, officially back! So indeed, my OS was corrupted and I sent it to my cousin’s husband to give it a diagnosis and perform what’s needed to be done.

He returned it to me three days ago (Thursday, 18th January, 2015) and starting from there, I began setting up my laptop to just that way it was before my OS got corrupted. At least, as much as 85% like how it was. Nothing can be a 100% unless I’m an IT expert, which I am not. Fortunately, my D drive was untouched whereas the main OS C drive was wiped. I had backups by accessing my laptop’s drive with an HDD enclosure so that didn’t isn’t an issue – I just had to wait for hours to transfer the C drive backups. At least I didn’t have to transfer the D drive backups. That one has more files and worth more gb than the C Drive.

The next day, I went through the pains of reinstalling vital and essential programs and drives (such as touchpad, graphics, webcam, etc). And honestly, I didn’t think it would be so quick. The last time I had to do it, that was within the first year I had this laptop, it took me a week. I ultimately finished installing practically all the important stuff on that day with some that I did later. On that day, I watched the first Godfather movie with my lil’ brother.

The next day after that… it wasn’t all that spiffy and smooth. Honestly, I thought I was close to being done. I continued on setting up my laptop and at the same time, I was installing some stuff and testing them and then finally, personalizing my PC settings and whatnot. And then when I thought I should restart my laptop just to ensure everything’s done, something came up during boot, something about checking HDD for consistency. After waiting for hours for that to complete, I found that I couldn’t access my D drive. I was panicking. I felt like I was almost about to break down again. But I tried to stay calm and fixed the issue.

Honestly, yesterday (Saturday, 18th January, 2015), I was supposed to be typing this up for you at around 6pm. The consistency check ended around 7pm and for 8 hours, I was trying to gain access to my D drive. I went back to a restore point, fixed certain credentials, fixed permissions and whatnot et voila! I fixed all my issues. I mean, when I first managed to gain access into my D drive, I can access it just fine. As long I have my files. But that wasn’t enough, entering any of my folders required an “Administrator’s Permission” and because of that, it affected the many convenient shortcuts I have strategically placed. So I worked hard to ensure everything ran smoothly. After I fixed that, I absolutely CANNOT access my anti-virus software (BitDefender). So I had to do some stuff with it and uninstall it. After several times restarting my laptop, I had to install it and that didn’t go well at all. Again, after restarting my laptop several times, I finally got it to install.

From here, I’m pretty close to done. When I finally installed BitDefender, it was around 2:30am. I watched some YouTube videos and listened to addicting tracks to keep me sane and calm.

I slept that night with my laptop downloading and installing 199 windows updates. I woke up at 9am to find around 160 done. I then slept for another 3 hours. After cleaning myself up and having lunch, I finally completed all of that and here I am, typing this up for all of you.

I stay somewhat anxious but I’m happy to have my laptop back.

I’m not completely done. I have some things I need doing, backing up my D drive and analyzing/defragmentation but I’ll leave that for when I sleep in the coming days.

I am back, and hopefully, my laptop would not pull another stunt like this.

Seriously, that day, back when my OS got corrupted (Sunday, 11th January, 2015), I was just watching YouTube videos and planned to chill by playing This War of Mine, since I have to get back to work on my next novella of my short crossover series for the rest of the new week. And then I had Blue Screen of Death. OS corrupted. Computer ded.

Well, here’s to hoping that nothing like this will happen again. And here’s to hoping I get a new laptop sooner than later, in the event that it’s finally my laptop’s time (which is around 5 years old).