Computer Trouble

My computer just started making a scary sound this morning - kind of a "Whirrrr, whirrr, CLICK! Whirrrr, whirrr, CLICK!". For some reason I suspect this could mean that one of the hard drives is crashing. It started terribly slowly, but it did start eventually and I was able to create and print Sebastian's letter from Santa Claus. Still, I'm pretty worried.

My most important stuff is saved on GMail, but a lot of my photos aren't - there are just too many of them. It would take twenty CDs just to save my photos and videos from 2006 alone! Which is another good reason to get a new computer. A DVD-ROM would be awfully useful now.

I've run a full scandisk on the older, slave drive, including a full surface scan. It apparently checked out okay. I'll run a scan on the main drive when I get home tonight.

Computer Trouble

My computer just started making a scary sound this morning - kind of a "Whirrrr, whirrr, CLICK! Whirrrr, whirrr, CLICK!". For some reason I suspect this could mean that one of the hard drives is crashing. It started terribly slowly, but it did start eventually and I was able to create and print Sebastian's letter from Santa Claus. Still, I'm pretty worried.

My most important stuff is saved on GMail, but a lot of my photos aren't - there are just too many of them. It would take twenty CDs just to save my photos and videos from 2006 alone! Which is another good reason to get a new computer. A DVD-ROM would be awfully useful now.

I've run a full scandisk on the older, slave drive, including a full surface scan. It apparently checked out okay. I'll run a scan on the main drive when I get home tonight.

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I forgot to say: I ran full scans on both of my hard drives, doing full surface scans and automatic fixes. Both scans completed without any alerts. And the machine has stopped making that noise - it's acting like nothing happened, the lying, treacherous piece of hardware.

You know, for some reason I think that maybe a year or two ago the machine made the same sound, and stopped just as suddenly. I should search my journal to see if I wrote about it...

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I forgot to say: I ran full scans on both of my hard drives, doing full surface scans and automatic fixes. Both scans completed without any alerts. And the machine has stopped making that noise - it's acting like nothing happened, the lying, treacherous piece of hardware.

You know, for some reason I think that maybe a year or two ago the machine made the same sound, and stopped just as suddenly. I should search my journal to see if I wrote about it...