Posted on - June 28, 2007 [at] 1:55 pm by Brad
Tagged in - computers, rant, tech
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Woke up this morning to my desktop machine frozen on the Windows boot-up screen. I hit a key and it rebooted. What the. Let it go through, it froze again. Tried safe mode, froze again. And a second time. Uh oh.
Tried some rescue LiveCD rescue stuff, maybe my Windows install was just barfed. My hard drive seemed to be gone. I fearfully checked the state of my backups — was pleasantly surprised to see they were intact. Also Gmail meant my email still worked and Google Browser Sync meant I had all my bookmarks and cookies on my laptop. Sweet.
I started going through the motions of getting a replacement hard drive, rebooted the desktop again for kicks and everything worked fine. “Windows has recovered from a serious error.” I’ll say.
Hard drive on the way out? Power supply dying? Heat? I don’t know but that was a dumb way to kill a couple hours.
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Peter J on Hard drive terror
July 9, 2007 at 9:35 pm
You might want to give SpinRite (http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm) a try. As far as hard drive mainteanance/recovery, it’s the best. Worth the 89 bucks it costs.