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The reaper calls for my HD
10 years ago
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The slow constant humming of my hard drive has been happening for a few weeks now. Yesterday it started a slow tailspin into the void known as death, the response time is slowing down to almost nothing. Programs take 2-3 minutes to pop open and are unusable at this point. It takes 10 minutes to get on my desktop.
So here's to you, Hitachi Hard drive from 2008, a faithful servant operating twenty four hours a day since then. I do turn it off occasionally, but a month of being off versus close to 8 years of being ON constantly has taken it's toll.
All my data is safe, I pulled off the MOST important stuff last night, and transferred over the videos and music today to another HD. Aside from game saves (Woo, I can replay them 'new' now!) I have managed to get everything good.
I have 2 other HD's inside my desktop. A 1TB and a 2TB, going to reformat the 2TB (Never use it really, nothing is on it) and use that as the OS drive.
Now I am off to reformat the drive and re-download everything. Steam, Skype and so on. So It will be at least a day till I am back at operating capacity, perhaps longer, as I have alot of stuff to download....
So here's to you, Hitachi Hard drive from 2008, a faithful servant operating twenty four hours a day since then. I do turn it off occasionally, but a month of being off versus close to 8 years of being ON constantly has taken it's toll.
All my data is safe, I pulled off the MOST important stuff last night, and transferred over the videos and music today to another HD. Aside from game saves (Woo, I can replay them 'new' now!) I have managed to get everything good.
I have 2 other HD's inside my desktop. A 1TB and a 2TB, going to reformat the 2TB (Never use it really, nothing is on it) and use that as the OS drive.
Now I am off to reformat the drive and re-download everything. Steam, Skype and so on. So It will be at least a day till I am back at operating capacity, perhaps longer, as I have alot of stuff to download....
I try to keep the OS on a smaller hard-drive. That way it Windows becomes corrupt and I need to reinstall, I'm not going to lose any data. But that might not be the best option for you. A small SSD is a great OS (and large program) drive. They're not terribly expensive anymore, but it assumes you have money to spend on a 3rd hard drive.
For now I use what I have!
will send flowers.