Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 03:59 AM CET
Hey, great, I’ve only had this Maxtor HD for a year or so and it’s already crapping out on me. Luckily, one thing Maxtors are notoriously good at is damage control. No Hitachi Click of Death™ for me, “just” the odd bad sector on my E: volume. Still … I’m going back to Seagate, because they’re the only ones that have never died on me. I was going to go with Western Digital at first, but meh, they’re too much like Maxtor. So I’m going to get a 120 or 160 GB SATA Seagate sometime tomorrow and hopefully install it without any trouble, since I’ve never been that close to a SATA drive. Since it’s my primary HD that’s dying, I’ll also have to reinstall Windows. Joy. I think I’m going to take more backups first—as soon as I’ve got a fresh batch of DVD+Rs. Man, like I haven’t got anything better to do.