So it seems that this laptop’s (currently dubbed Tokyo) hard drive is about to die any day now. It’s happening again like it did earlier this year. This time around I’m prepared.
I knew that when my laptop went into service with Acer, I would be given a refurbished hard drive for replacement. I was right. Only 7 months in, and this hard drive is acting up already. I’m not sure what the cause of all this is though. But I’ve detected the first signs of the inevitable.
It first starts off with a very slow boot. Then from there on out, any sound coming from the laptop is very slow. Almost like playing a video in a rough slow motion. So far I haven’t seen the signs of CPU slowness, so I know I still have time to evacuate everything off this laptop.
I went out and purchased a brand new laptop hard drive from Memory Express. I was expecting to pay no more than $150 for the hard drive and enclosure. Nope…walked out $260 short. I wanted a 120 GB hard drive, but they had none. They only carried 100GB and 160GB both being 7200s. $150 for 100GB or $190 for the 160GB. I couldn’t help it but get the 160GB one. As for the enclosure, it’s eSATA and fairly small. So I can expect to carry it around with me using the soon-to-be-ripped-out hard drive from this laptop.
Once I’ve evacuated my hard drive of my prized processions, no not porn, more along the lines of projects and what not. Until I can get my new hard drive in, this will be my last post using this hard drive.
What? No credit for the memx tip? Nick, that hurts
hope everything goes well with your swap, they can be a total bitch when the drive starts to fail. I bought a Seagate FreeAgent 160, works awesome for a portable drive and its pretty to boot.
What OS is going back on when you reinstall?
lol.
Sorry, totally slipped my mind. I’d like to thank Chris for helping me save $1000 by suggesting to swap out the hard drive instead of buying a new laptop.
Everything is back up now. I’m sticking with XP until the very last minute.
Give vista a spin when you get the chance, I’ve been running it the past week at work and no issues so far. Mind you, no gaming either so we’ll see how that one goes.