Last week our family PC suddenly went KAPUT. The mouse freezed and sis were telling me…”see see you bought cheap mouse now spoilt liao”…”how much you bought ar ?”.
Me: “RM20+ only” 
We also suspected virus attack. We scanned for virus and fortunately our PC get a clean bill of health. There are 2 reasons why no virus were found, either our PC is really healthy or because we never download the virus update therefore our anti-virus software never knew what latest virus is out there.
We then decided to reformat our hard drive. Of course before doing that we have to backup all our ‘precious’ files. So off we go using KEYBOARD ONLY to access our files and folders. That was tough man! We planned to backup our files by burning it into CD/DVD BUT BUT BUT tak jadi la. Guess why ?
At the very last Nero window, we pressed tab to choose ‘Burn’ and then pressed ‘Enter’. Well we were in for a BIG suprise. See picture below.
CLICK is the keyword.
No mouse ? No BURN!
WTF!!!!!!!!
We had to abort our mission and proceed to 2nd degree emergency which is save ‘em into our thumbdrives. We managed it but somehow had to leave some files behind.
Lessons learnt:
1. Backup your files from time to time.
2. Download virus update.
3. Mouse is one of the most important inventions of our time. Read it at wiki by clicking at the link. Say your prayer and praise ‘em ‘The Geniuses’.
To be continued…reformat blues!
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Neo Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 1:08 amVisit Neo
Can’t use the keyboard keys to “click”? Anyway, how about go get a new mouse and start the burning?
moz monster Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 9:48 amVisit moz monster
Wow … so what happened next? One good idea is to have an external drive so that you can save ‘em easily .. I have a few of them, setup as a RAID array … because I so kiasu I’ll lose my work …
Jemima Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 1:18 pmVisit Jemima
Get an external drive. That’s what I have. You can even bring it to work.
beerbrat Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 2:26 pmVisit beerbrat
Yeah get an external drive…. and i am quite sure you can use Tab and Enter to do jobs with your keyboard.
wuching Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 5:23 pmVisit wuching
u know why ur mouse is dead? becoz chester not doing his job! chester not guarding the house so neighbour’s cat came into the house & killed ur mouse!
Yvy Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 11:42 amVisit Yvy
adumak…..scary leh. this is why i so scared of my puter sometimes…
kampungkai Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 1:26 pmVisit kampungkai
smack the monitor with your hand la… the virus will die wan hahahah! virus virus… they are annoying!
Che-Cheh Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 2:28 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Neo, yup can’t use the keyboard to ‘click’. Moz Monster, Jemima and Beerbrat, external drive??
Gallivanter Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 10:48 pmVisit Gallivanter
Schumacher storms to another victory and will be leaving us at the end of this F1 season.
dreamcatcher Says:
September 11th, 2006 at 7:03 amVisit dreamcatcher
Che-Cheh Says:
September 11th, 2006 at 10:02 amVisit Che-Cheh
Daniel, yup booo hooo
Jason Says:
September 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pmVisit Jason
Time to get a RM200 logitech cordless laser mouse MX610 like mine. :D
Che-Cheh Says:
September 11th, 2006 at 8:56 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Jason, you sponsor me ?
Bryan Says:
September 12th, 2006 at 2:09 amVisit Bryan
ErRRr… Not very sure whether it works but you may wanna try using Tab on the keyboard next time. :) Or else, use a touchscreen monitor and click using your finger.
Che-Cheh Says:
September 12th, 2006 at 7:31 amVisit Che-Cheh
Bryan, yup I pressed Tab to choose ‘Burn’ then only press enter but it won’t work.