RIP, my old laptop hard drive and everything that was on it.
Last Saturday I came back home from Tsutaya with a stack of rented CDs, intending to do what everyone else who rents CDs does. After finishing that business, I attempted to check my email and was mildly troubled by the slow speed of my computer. So, since I had left the poor guy running indefinitely as usual, I decided to do a rare restart.
Unfortunately, it never got back to windows. I decided to run a diagnostic on startup. As I feared, my hard drive failed its DST test. On a whim, I decided to restart the computer just to see if anything would happen. I was greeted with this gem:
“Hard drive failure imminent, please back up all data.”
A little late on that one, I’m afraid. I’ve been neglecting to back up data, as my old computer’s hard drive has lasted so long without any problems (I still use it as additional storage). There’s a lot of stuff I wish I could recover from this drive, but god only knows if that’s even possible at this point, short of paying an arm and a leg. I don’t even know if I could find someone who could do that around here, even in the city.
I decided to suck it up and buy a new hard drive, as I’d rather fix this quickly than try to jump through Dell’s hoops to get a replacement overseas with only ten days left on my warranty. I’m also not looking forward to starting over from scratch, but perhaps it’ll be for the best. There was too much junk on my old drive anyway.
I suppose I’ll have to be satisfied with my work laptop until then…
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