HDD
July 14th, 2010An abbreviation for Hard Disk Drive.
The computer screen glows to life with a task bar at the bottom of the desktop and a dialog message. I must have left the computer on all day again. You can’t tell because it’s just as quiet on as it is off. As the monitor comes to full brightness, I can make out the message better. It reads something to the effect of that I should immediately back up all of my data because the hard drive is going bad.
I turn the computer off, wait a few seconds and power it back on. After the computer POSTs with a solid single beep, a text message is displayed. The white text tells me that my hard drive is going bad and that I should turn the computer off. I press enter to load the operating system and everything looks fine.
Shutdown and restart. The same warning message appears.
When I purchased this particular hard disk drive, the half the customers complained that their hard drives went bad in about 3 – 6 months. Do you know what? They were right.
GAH! It’s so frustrating to have that happen. Luckily, you’ve gotten the warning so that you can back everything up yourself before it blows! With my luck, the internal will crash without warning someday, so I’m a huge fan of having an external hard drive that I use to backup the internal hard drive. LOL
Hopefully, I can clone all of the data to the new drive. Afterward, I’ll exchange the bad one since it’s well within warranty and use it has my backup drive.
Total data loss sucks.