Last week, my home computer that I had built myself three years ago began to give me fits. It would freeze up and I could hear one of the two hard drives having trouble reading or loading or something. I would have to hit the reset button just to get the mouse or keyboard to give me a response. I was becoming irritated.
It was very sporadic. The first day the computer acted up it took me a couple tries to get it working and finally I gave up. Two days later I had some time and decided to try working on the computer again. That day the computer was fine and didn't give me any sh*t. WTF?? I worked on what I had to do on the computer and shut it down for the night. I began to suspect that one or both of the hard drives might be failing. Which irritated me even more because they were both bought new when I bought the rest of the hardware for the computer three years ago.
A couple of days later, I wanted to get back on the computer and install a new external DVD burner that I had bought at Best Buy. I booted up the computer and it immediately started giving me sh*t again. I hadn't even gotten the new drive plugged in before the computer decided to not cooperate. So I painstakingly coax the machine to work with me until I could run diagnostics and try to figure out what was wrong. The first run of diagnostics gave me no useful information so I decided to try on another day with different tests. In the meantime, I debated with myself about buying a new and bigger hard drive to replace whichever one I suspected was going out.
I finally convinced myself to buy a new hard drive and found myself on my laptop in the living room browsing online for a new one. I went with a 500 GB drive that was listed on a Top 10 hard drive list and put in my order.
One day before the new hard drive arrived on my doorstep I ran some special diagnostic tools that were specifically for the brand of hard drive that I currently had in the computer. The tests returned error-free results on both hard drives. WTF?? I know I'm not losing my mind. The noises I heard coming from the machine when it was giving me sh*t were classic hard drive failure sounds. The computer lock ups point to possible hard drive failure as well. So how in the hell could the tests return error free on the hard drives when nothing else was wrong with the computer? I had a moment of total anger meltdown when I thought to myself, "Well, I just bought a new hard drive for nothing!"
But I'm going to upgrade the hard drive anyway and swap all of my backed up data to the larger of the two current hard drives to keep as a secondary drive. Because, really, what kind of idiot would I be to not install the 500 GB hard drive and toss the 40 GB that's in there now? There's probably some geek/hacker law against something like that... Hopefully the new hard drive will last much longer than the previous one.
Damn machines!!
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