I participated in a PhD interview yesterday. As a part of the process, I had two hours to type responses to two essays. I typed my responses on a laptop provided there, saved and saved (and saved again) onto my disk. When I finished, I closed out the laptop and handed the disk to the assistant, who was printing off the responses and putting them into files for review. When she tried to open my disk, it was corrupt! I sat for an hour trying to retrieve the file - NO LUCK AT ALL. I worked so hard on it.
I am really bummed right now. The questions were very difficult and the experience was very stressful. I keep asking myself: Why do I have to this all over again!?!??!!?! Any theories on why it happened?? I'm religious, so I have tried to figure out God's plan all day long.....
2007-02-10 14:42:14 · 3 answers · asked by TwinkaTee 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. As are the computers and software that read floppies (Win 98 and older, usually). There could be a variety of reasons why the assistant got a corrupt disk message. Likely, your floppy was bad.
This happened all the time when I took the Bar exam. At the end of every day, there were always several people who had floppy problems.
Since they provided everything, the equipment was prolly used and abused. Just bad luck. It's hard to figure out where this fits in God's plan. Maybe it wasn't God. Maybe he's teaching you a lesson? Maybe he's preventing you from something? Who knows. Unless he actually talks to you, you'll never know. He gave you free will for a reason. What do you want? Will it make him proud? I imagine you being a PhD and in better position to help people will please him. So, quit wasting energy on something useless and use the time He gave you to rectify the floppy situation.
2007-02-12 08:20:40 · answer #1 · answered by Linkin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm assuming you used a 1.4FD[?]. If so, they're not commonly known for their reliability. These disks are sensitive to magnetic fields and dirt contamination. Next time I'd suggest using a thumb dive - they're solid-state and more reliable.
Did you try running full scandisk...?
2007-02-10 14:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by THX1138 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a USB flash thumb ,next time.
2007-02-10 14:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by NYC-BIGCAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋