Hard drive ground to a halt

[wolfen]

OK I've posted this on a couple of boards, so if I already posted it on here somebody just shoot me and get it over with.

My dam hard drive ground to a complete halt 3 days ago, things 11 months old and yes its a Seagate, thats the only good thing, I lost everything, but at least I backed up my bookmarks to everything on the computer I'm on now ( my oldest sons).
New Hard drive should be here sometime early next week. Then i can stat installing and downloading all over again. I'm gonna buy another one to keep on hand just in case. the 5-7 business days are killing me.

 

[Sevens]

I.......think you mentioned that? Maybe? Or I could've been dreaming. Either way, that really sucks.

 

[wolfen]

I can't remember. I admit it I am a little forgetful sometimes, its either the chemicals used in Desert storm or that stuff my 13 year old made for supper last night

either way your right it sucks really bad, this thing is a 1 gig with 128 meg or ram and a 5 gig hard drive that is almost full with his school junk that he never deletes.

 

[Sevens]

Gotta love kids. I have two backups for my computer, but, as my sister continually likes to point out, I have next to nothing on here. LOL

 

[MontyB]

I used to be big on back ups, secondary backups and fire proof safes for back ups until a few years ago when it was pointed out to me that I had absolutely nothing on my computer I couldn't afford to lose and now I don't bother with back ups at all.

I can understand the need to back up if you are keeping documents or pictures etc. that are irreplaceable but for your average home PC I think people put way too much effort into backing up. For the most part computers will run happily for years which means that when something does die it is probably a good opportunity to tidy the system up (reformat and reinstall) anyway.

 

[wolfen]

I found out back when a 486 was top of the line and 3.1.1 was boss O/S that backups aren't as important as knowing where to get all the stuff that you used to have, thats why I have a cdrw labeled Computer Utilities disk 1 and 2, with every single setup that I used to have on the hard drive before it craped out , if a prog isn't on those2 disks, i have a little thing called bookmarks in the shared folder on this computer with all the places I need to go to get what I want or need.