Laptop hard drive replacement en route!
Jul. 18th, 2006 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI might actually get it Tuesday. I bought a 100gig Western Digital from Fry's Outpost.com site, got it for $130 with (theoretical) next day delivery, so hopefully I'll be able to start rebuilding my laptop then.
The drive hasn't totally failed, I'm using my laptop right now. But it was giving me fits Saturday and Sunday, so it's time for it to go. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about Overstock.com, I'll wait for the twits to call me and we'll see what's what. I would love to have them replace the case: it has two stress cracks, but it's never been dropped! Besides, the place where the cracks are aren't points that you could drop it on, it would take some very creative trajectory.
It occurred to me as I pulled in the driveway tonight that I do have a 30gig laptop HD here: my MP3 laptop. But I don't have my system CD, so it would be a bit of a challenge to transplant it and get it running again. I have the same prob with the drive arriving tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I can transfer the OS. It's going to take some work, but when I succeed it will reassert and reaffirm my alpha geek status. ;-)
The drive hasn't totally failed, I'm using my laptop right now. But it was giving me fits Saturday and Sunday, so it's time for it to go. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about Overstock.com, I'll wait for the twits to call me and we'll see what's what. I would love to have them replace the case: it has two stress cracks, but it's never been dropped! Besides, the place where the cracks are aren't points that you could drop it on, it would take some very creative trajectory.
It occurred to me as I pulled in the driveway tonight that I do have a 30gig laptop HD here: my MP3 laptop. But I don't have my system CD, so it would be a bit of a challenge to transplant it and get it running again. I have the same prob with the drive arriving tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I can transfer the OS. It's going to take some work, but when I succeed it will reassert and reaffirm my alpha geek status. ;-)
