Update on Defeat

I messed with the hard drive for a few more hours. It’s gone sour. No matter how I try to format it, it fails. The software says it’s gone bad.
I go to Western Digital’s site to check the warranty. The warranty ran out on May 24th. Yesterday….
Damn.

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10 thoughts on “Update on Defeat”

  1. yup… this close to going 100% mac.
    this close.
    thanks for trying Mikey.
    spybot could be to blame.
    buyer beware!

  2. Join us Martin, leave the PCs behind and join us Martin! Once you go 100% Mac, you’ll find joy and enlightment, you’ll never want to go back. Join us Martin…

  3. I hate to say it, but hard drive hardware errors happen on both Mac and PC platforms.
    One of my shiny new hard-drives bit the dust recently, and I didn’t want to send it in because somewhere on there was all my personal financial information.
    Fortunately hard drives are cheap these days.

  4. I love this age of super-cheep Hard drives (I just bought a 120GB Western-digi for $60) but I fear it means there is NO Quality Control any more. Every manufacture is prone to many more failures than in the past few years…
    Maybe I should set up a mirror-RAID….

  5. I just bought a Maxtor firewire drive and make constant backups on that. Also, the new Sony DVD writers let you do packet writing as a way to do backups on the fly to DVD.
    Obviously this doesn’t help you *now* but maybe in the future 🙂

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