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So, spent the morning walking around downtown, and what should I see on my dorm PC's screen once I got in the door but the poison words "hard drive failure imminent"...
Ah, such a good computer, hate to see it die like that... hopefully I'll be able to salvage as much as possible once I've scraped together enough cash to get a new drive...
What kind of peachy-keen error messages have you guys come home to in the past?
well hell i didnt even get an error when my IBM Deathstar died the other day. just wouldnt post. pissed me off to no end.
i'm posting from the laptop that my mom brought home from school...
our 80 gig HD just blew on us... and my dad (the computer wiz) couldn't get any other harddrives to boot up on the old comp. *sigh* and there went all of those hours in Morrowind, Deus Ex, Sacrifice, and System Shock 2 ... :(
it'll be ok first blood :(
hmm.....interesting
Get a Western Digital Special Edition 7200 RPM ATA100 drive. Unless your current drive's warranty is still valid.
My PC decided it didn't need to boot up anymore, just the other day. Today I ordered a new Motherboard, CPU, RAM and Video Card. My wallet is now $500 lighter.
-Kevin
Heh.
I just got my laptop back from its second warranty repair. The first time, whenever Windows XP Pro booted, it'd start finding problems on the disk surface, so I needed to replace the hard drive.
The second time... heh. I walked back to my desk from my boss's office, and the laptop screen was completely white. From then on, within a minute or two of powering up, the screep would flicker and melt into white. The screen needed replacing.
So much for blue screens... I got a whitescreen error! ;)
I have that HD, its bitchen and fast as fuck.Quote:
Originally posted by Lhadatt
Get a Western Digital Special Edition 7200 RPM ATA100 drive. Unless your current drive's warranty is still valid.
Well, at least you didn't know how it happened and had to restrain yourself from beating the living shit out of someone for it...Quote:
Originally posted by DArque Bishop
Heh.
I just got my laptop back from its second warranty repair. The first time, whenever Windows XP Pro booted, it'd start finding problems on the disk surface, so I needed to replace the hard drive.
The second time... heh. I walked back to my desk from my boss's office, and the laptop screen was completely white. From then on, within a minute or two of powering up, the screep would flicker and melt into white. The screen needed replacing.
So much for blue screens... I got a whitescreen error! ;)
Me... well... my sister bashed my laptop against the wall once... bye, hard drive! Now, there's the end of a 1/8" miniplug (headphone plug) stuck in the headphone jack in my computer from when my girlfriend stepped on the tape adapter while it was in my car. Bah.
Simple equation: Women + Computer = BOOM
Yes.Quote:
Originally posted by innova
I have that HD, its bitchen and fast as fuck.
8 MB buffer. 8.9 ms read seek time, 10.9 ms write seek time. 736.0 Mbits/second buffer to disc. Everyone should have these drives.
Is that a laptop harddrive or a normal desktop one?
Desktop.
But these are laptop drives:
http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/ProdHA...UJITSU2.5.hmx?
http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/ProdHA...-NOTEBOOK.hmx?
Check your laptop's BIOS drive size limit before buying.