2012-07-10 - Hard Drive Fall Down Go Boom

So a few weeks ago the main hard drive on my computer decided to crash. I was watching TV and when I got up to turn the computer off I found it complaining about how it couldn’t boot. I did some investigation and found out that the hard drive had gotten some serious sector errors and was pretty messed up. So I installed windows on the secondary hard drive to ensure that there were no other problems with the computer and ordered a replacement drive. I then had an interesting week where I had a computer but didn’t want to do much with it because anything I installed would just have to be reinstalled when the new drive arrived.

It wasn’t a total loss as I was able to recover a fair amount of data from the old drive. There were important things that were completely lost and there were useless things which were perfectly recoverable. The template images for this site were one of the things which I couldn’t recover so you might notice a change as I need to partially recreate them. I’ve been meaning to try and make my own penguin anyways, it’s always better to have everything be an original creation.

I should point out that the drive only took a week to arrive and that the reason I didn’t post in June is more because I’m lazy. There probably won’t be many posts in July either because it’s freaking hot and this computer is a furnace.