It’s the nightmare of every writer in the computer age, and now it’s mine.
On Thursday, my desktop PC’s hard drive began to make it really obvious it was about to fail. Over the past month, it has crashed three times and on Thursday night, it started emitting a periodic high-pitched whine. I was able to get a few blog-posts up but quickly shut it down and went out and bought a new hard drive.
What a nightmare!
I was able to find a nice, large, affordable hard drive to replace my existing one, but what a lot of work it has been! I foolishly followed the directions included with the new hard drive, and was rewarded with an unsuccessful formatting procedure; it took me 36 hours to realize it wasn’t working correctly.
Now I am scrambling to do a system restore, reinstall nearly all of my software, some of which I may have to repurchase, and recover my personal files - tons of it writing projects - before the whole thing crashes for good.
At least once it’s done, my new hard drive, a 250GB behemoth, will hold a lot more than the last one. Writing isn’t all capresso and casual clothing.
