While sitting at my desk this afternoon, I started to hear my laptop making a clicking noise. I decided to power it down, not knowing what the cause was. When I booted it back up, the computer complained that it could not find the primary hard drive. WTF? I tried a few more times, all with the same result.
After searching the forums, there are a few things I can try so that I can at least boot up and back up my data, but it looks like I'm out a couple hundred dollars to replace the drive and rebuild the OS. I'm just really glad that I backed up my projects early yesterday. I did/will loose some data, but only a couple of hours worth. It could be worse, but not what I want to deal with right now. Guess I will seriously have to look at some backup device or method for my computers at home, and also start dumping my laptop to the backups. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Posted by doug at July 26, 2004 03:55 PM | TrackBack