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OK, I know I didn't spell things exactly right, I was trying for the old Bugs Bunny cartoon, but anyway, the laptop that I had rebuilt and had been using, died a final time and I having to use another old computer that is even more ancient and limited than the laptop that I rebuilt.  I had been having some computer issues with the laptop for the last several months,  I would fix one problem and another would pop up.  Anyway, until I can save up for another computer, I am out of the rendering business.  I was just getting use to using Daz Studio when the problems started and I was trying to work around the problems.  the really bad thing is that all of my story files were on the laptop!  I had been planning to back them up on a new thumb drive but I just had not been able to do when the computer went down the final time....

I've never liked rendering on a laptop, it generates a lot of heat and laptops are not built to dissipate it well. If you have room for a desktop that's what I'd get, and you can pick up used ones pretty quickly. I've got a couple of Dell Precisions I use I picked up on e-bay. And brimstone is correct, unless you were having hard drive issues there is probably nothing wrong with that drive. Even if the OS wouldn't boot, the data may still be intact.

PS - I think your title was from a "Hee-Haw" routine - Buck Owens and Roy Clarke sang it:

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me

Edited by user Wednesday, December 30, 2020 7:51:47 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Brimstone Omega brings up an interesting note that in most cases the memory from a hard drive can be accessed to get back data

My spouse's CPU crashed after trying to nurse it along to the point we just did not turn the thing off.  but a local power outage did happen and we could not get the unit to respond even in safe mode.

So I got a external hard drive case that was good for both the old and new style of connections and  would even accepted SSD cards and i got her a moderate Lenono PC with Windows 10 anf a 6th generation i-5 chipset and 8GB ram with a hard drive and the ssd on a 256 Gig 

Then I got the old drive and after three tries got into the old HD and extracted the word docs and savored pics from the old drive and  moved it over to the new PC.

This external drive went for about $40 US  but it will now act as a back up drive with a 2 TB disc drive inside of of it. 

Times are tough and other items and needs  are more important that others and sometimes an expensive piece of gear like a PC or laptopn just have to wait.

Not sure about running daz software on a laptop as I do not have DAZ  but some of these new Gaming laptops are quite rugged when it comes to on board ram and video  games so perhaps one of those system can run DAZ

 Regards  Shadoman