So, about a year and a half ago, I convinced my parents to buy me a laptop. At the time, I had a 5 year old desktop that seemed to be on it's last legs. Additionally, since Tufts has several affiliated hospitals that are not in Boston, it would be nice to have a computer that I could bring.

Well, schedules for third year came out and I only had one non-Boston rotation. The very last rotation of the year...which is now. So, I'm out in Springfield, MA to do Ob/Gyn at Baystate Medical Center. I've been coming home every weekend.

Last weekend, I was home...and my laptop just stopped running. It's been happening occasionally. I just need to restart it. However, I try to restart and it does not work. Apparently, it is not recognizing my hard drive according to the default diagnostic softwares. This is incredibly horrible since I had not backed up my files since the beginning of 2009. In fact, I had planned to backup and defrag the drive that weekend. It was early Sat morning and I was practically just about to get to it.

Unfortunately, it won't let me try safe mode, but I get some kind of HP brand backup and recovery software. I try doing a backup (which took hours and didn't work)...but it was clearly accessing my hard drive. But then I had to return to Springfield.

So on the very rotation that it made a big difference if I had a laptop or desktop, my laptop fails...and I have no laptop. Somehow my desktop that had died but I kept around anyway...it works. That's how I'm posting this. But the laptop still doesn't work. I did manage to use one of those internal hard drive to external drive encasings and backup all of the data I've been worrying about for a week. But now I have to go back to Springfield for a week.

6:54 PM