The past few days have been complete ass.

First, one of my hard drives (we'll call it A) reports that it's going bad, so I get a new one to replace it. My other hard drive (B) is pretty much full, so I figure I'll get a replacement for it as well, only larger.

I boot up Linux from a CD just because I want to be sure there's nothing using any files from my hard drives during the transfer, and I start copying the files from A to C. This takes over TWO DAYS. Seriously, Linux reports the data transfer speed, and at times it got as low as 15 kbps. I guess I started that backup just in time, because that thing went down the shitter.

A is also the hard drive where I keep my instrument samples, so there's a good chance that was causing, or at least influencing the performance drops I had been experiencing when working in FL Studio with samplers.

After that bullcrap, I open A's case and put D in its place, then start copying the files from B to D. No problems there. It even maintained a respectable data transfer rate.

However, my curiosity got the best of me when I hooked C and D up and booted back into Windows. I was expecting that during the transfer, it would have copied the files all nice and neat to their new destination drives and everything would be great. Well, D was fine, but B was already nicely defragmented before it was copied. I don't know the status of A before I started the backup, but C was fragmented as hell. I'd estimate it was at least 60% red in the analysis meter. This drive was also fairly full, so I had to move some files from it over to D to make sure it had enough free space to defragment. It's currently in the process of defragging, and I have no idea how long it's going to take, but it needs to be done because streaming fragmented samples from a disk isn't a very good idea.

So yeah, I haven't been able to be very productive lately and it's kind of annoying because I'm leaving for two weeks on Saturday and won't be able to take my computer.