twall
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In addition to going on workshare, and getting cited for my hobby, I have another thing that is pretty big that happened in July. Happened about a week before the citation and the 4 day workweek.
My big, beautiful, 64-bit, win 7 great laptop? Well it was reading and it got dropped (accidentally smacked the screen and the main computer came SMACK on the counter) That would mean a crashed HD. It seemed fine, and I used it the rest of the day. But, it didn't want to shut down right. No biggie - it's done that a million times before.......but, when I went to power it up the next day? It would NOT boot, no matter what I tried. Tried all the windows utilities, and NO GO. You could hear the HD arm ticking at a reguar interval - the HD plate was scratched, and it was 'skipping' in the boot sector.
OKAY, so I have been using my netbook for three weeks (enough to put ANYONE in a bad mood), and ordered a new HD from Amazon. Two things i'd like to say: One, when did HD's go so CHEAP??? I got a Wesern Digital 250 gig with the same cache and RPM as the HD I had originally, for $50 BUCKS SHIPPED! Last I bought a brand new HD, it was around $1 per gig (but a 10 gig was a standard $80 bucks). For the cheapest Seagate (which my acer HAD) out there. Or cheapest anything. Don't want to get into a religious debate about HD brands. But, seemed 250 gig HD's were $200 and UP. PLUS shipping.
Second, those 'recovery disks' I complained about having to burn? Worked flawlessly, I do believe. I am on the netbook now, while the reinstall completes, but all seems well.
Also, this little netbook is VERY capable. It can do everything that the Acer did, but on a WAAAAAY smaller screen. It's a royal pain, because the keyboard is so tiny, as is every site, but I can post pics on my photo-heavy watch sites, just fine and dandy. I DO, however, have this thing tweaked nicely, with RAM I added, and whatnot. Yes, I also replaced my own HD. Not that big of a deal on a modern laptop.
Not all bad news, but an unneeded inconvienience anyhow. :thumbdown:
My big, beautiful, 64-bit, win 7 great laptop? Well it was reading and it got dropped (accidentally smacked the screen and the main computer came SMACK on the counter) That would mean a crashed HD. It seemed fine, and I used it the rest of the day. But, it didn't want to shut down right. No biggie - it's done that a million times before.......but, when I went to power it up the next day? It would NOT boot, no matter what I tried. Tried all the windows utilities, and NO GO. You could hear the HD arm ticking at a reguar interval - the HD plate was scratched, and it was 'skipping' in the boot sector.
OKAY, so I have been using my netbook for three weeks (enough to put ANYONE in a bad mood), and ordered a new HD from Amazon. Two things i'd like to say: One, when did HD's go so CHEAP??? I got a Wesern Digital 250 gig with the same cache and RPM as the HD I had originally, for $50 BUCKS SHIPPED! Last I bought a brand new HD, it was around $1 per gig (but a 10 gig was a standard $80 bucks). For the cheapest Seagate (which my acer HAD) out there. Or cheapest anything. Don't want to get into a religious debate about HD brands. But, seemed 250 gig HD's were $200 and UP. PLUS shipping.
Second, those 'recovery disks' I complained about having to burn? Worked flawlessly, I do believe. I am on the netbook now, while the reinstall completes, but all seems well.
Also, this little netbook is VERY capable. It can do everything that the Acer did, but on a WAAAAAY smaller screen. It's a royal pain, because the keyboard is so tiny, as is every site, but I can post pics on my photo-heavy watch sites, just fine and dandy. I DO, however, have this thing tweaked nicely, with RAM I added, and whatnot. Yes, I also replaced my own HD. Not that big of a deal on a modern laptop.
Not all bad news, but an unneeded inconvienience anyhow. :thumbdown:
