Technology is Great, When it Works
My stupid computer
from 
JoeUser Forums
JoeUser Forums
In the past month, I have had my notebook in the shop to have some bad solder connections repaired in the power circuits, replaced the modem, and as of yesterday had the hard drive crash. I think it's time to put this thing out to pasture.
The hard drive is reporting "imminent failure" on boot and half the drive is now completely unusable. After the crash I was unable to reboot the drive. Everything was trashed. Now, I'm no slouch when it comes to hardware/software issues but I was unable to recover the drive in any way that I attempted.
I decided that the easiest thing to do would be to simply reformat and repartition the drive and then reinstall my OS. Well, the drive has some fatal problems. I was unable to format the entire drive (12 Gig) due to errors, so I played around until I reached a set of pertition sizes that would allow sucessful formatting. Half the drive is trashed.
It looks like just a matter of time until the whole thing will fail. Replacing the hard drive in a notebook is no simple task as these things are a bear to disassemble, unlike a desktop tower wwhich can be done in a matter of minutes.
I will keep nursing this thing along for as long as I can, and save my money toward buying a new desktop computer. I am thinking I'll spec one out through Dell that will do what I need and not cost me an arm and a leg. Notebooks are expensive and difficult to repair and since I am not traveling for a living any more I don't see the need to go to the trouble and expense of another one.
Perhaps I will eventually repair this one and keep it around as a back-up computer or for when I do take a trip some place.
I like my notebook when it's working, and really really hate it when it isn't
Technology is great.....when it works.
The hard drive is reporting "imminent failure" on boot and half the drive is now completely unusable. After the crash I was unable to reboot the drive. Everything was trashed. Now, I'm no slouch when it comes to hardware/software issues but I was unable to recover the drive in any way that I attempted.
I decided that the easiest thing to do would be to simply reformat and repartition the drive and then reinstall my OS. Well, the drive has some fatal problems. I was unable to format the entire drive (12 Gig) due to errors, so I played around until I reached a set of pertition sizes that would allow sucessful formatting. Half the drive is trashed.
It looks like just a matter of time until the whole thing will fail. Replacing the hard drive in a notebook is no simple task as these things are a bear to disassemble, unlike a desktop tower wwhich can be done in a matter of minutes.
I will keep nursing this thing along for as long as I can, and save my money toward buying a new desktop computer. I am thinking I'll spec one out through Dell that will do what I need and not cost me an arm and a leg. Notebooks are expensive and difficult to repair and since I am not traveling for a living any more I don't see the need to go to the trouble and expense of another one.
Perhaps I will eventually repair this one and keep it around as a back-up computer or for when I do take a trip some place.
I like my notebook when it's working, and really really hate it when it isn't
Technology is great.....when it works.
