Jun
2nd
2018
PC Hard Drive Update · 8:31pm Jun 2nd, 2018
It lives!
Or, well, it doesn't. That one is dead. But I have a new hard drive! I got it delivered earlier on today. And it's a terabyte over a thousand gigs, so I can't complain about the upgrade. Of course I now have the tedium of reinstalling everything I couldn't save. Joy.
I did save all my fics and plans for said fics, though. However, given what's happened there won't be any updates this weekend at all. Sorry about that, but at leas things should be back to normal next week.
Ok have fun with that...
glad you got a new one, but keep your data safe in case something happens again
Need help? Don’t ask me I know jack about how computers work. Anyway wish you luck with the replacement.
Keep an eye on the SMART data. A lot of new drives, laptop ones especially, have short parking timers that put extra wear on the drive for no apparent reason. Look up anything involving HDD head parking, high load cycle count, etc, and you will find out how to check. Toshiba, WD, and Seagate are known for this, but WD and Seagate at least let you disable it with APM settings or a tool called WDIdle3 (the former).
Hmmm, based on my limited knowledge of computers and my extensive experience of watching how others fix their computers, I daresay this situation can only be rectified with the following educated solution:
Apply massive amounts of concussive maintenance with varying degrees of (calculated) force at very specific points of the affected hard ware. If the problem persists, repeat the process until said piece of hard ware regains optimal working functionality, or until logic impairing, emotional negativity is successfully discharged from your biological squishy ware.