Dying Hard Drive
Jfer's laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100 from 2001) hard-drive is dying. Lately she's been having the occasional "unrecognized boot device" screen and the computer has been quite sluggish. Running chkdisk found a bunch of corrupted files (mostly IE cache files, but some DLLs, too). The Dell diagnostic CD found errors on the HD, so I'm in the process of replacing it.
Some interesting things I discovered:
- Jfer's iPod has as much disk space as her original laptop drive
- Investing into a backup drive for her a couple of weeks ago is actually paying off!
- Unlike me, Jfer keeps almost all her files in her "My Documents" folder, so transferring them is a breeze.
- You can get a damn good notebook drive for peanuts (the 40Gig 5400RPM Toshiba drive I got can by had for less than $100 online, although I paid more for it at Fry's)
- Replacing a Dell notebook drive is very easy and quite inexpensive (I got the drive caddy on eBay for less than $10, including shipping)
- Reinstalling Windows still takes a lot of time...
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The facist speller in me can't resist correcting.
It's breeze, not brease. The Wife keeps all of her stuff in My Documents as well. Easy for backups and hackers.
On the subject of Apple products, my mother suggested that we get a webcam so that she can see the kids. I told her I'm planning on buying a G5 Powerbook once they're released. Looks like there's an iSight in my future as well...
I fixed the typos -- there were actually a few more than that (oh, and it's "fascist")...
I've also now experienced the blue screen of death on the laptop, so the upgrade hasn't been as smooth as hoped. BIOS reflashes are in order...
That was a typo. Really.