Part of the return process involves running a diagnostic program on the bad hard-drive. Per their website, 20% of returned drives are actually bad. It would have been helpful if I read that part before purchasing a replacement drive, transferring the data to it and spending an additional two hours formatting data off the bad [...]
The replacement hard drive arrives in the mail. It’s warm as it has been baking on my front doorstep for several hours. After spending an hour getting past the POST 21 error messages, it’s time to copy the contents of the failing hard-drive to the good one. I know one of the commercial programs that [...]
Pulling out the video card to reseat two memory sticks, I mutter, “I wish I had a Mac” as I wouldn’t be dealing with this crap. I quickly dismiss the thought as Macs are computers with training wheels (e.g., they just work) and resume trying to fix this new problem. I must have nudged something [...]
An 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 [...]