As of late my system has been misbehaving a little bit, but I chalked it up to generic Windows rot. Backups failing due to CRC errors, endless startup times, sluggish performance, that sort of thing. I didn't succeed in doing a disc scan for the same reason, but after the disappearance and reappearance of Kelley's laptop (also known as the most stressful week of this year) I did manage to back up most of my important data onto a single DVD (after a day's effort and a lot of coasters)
Yesterday morning that experience became unbearable. Hoping I was simply due for a reboot, I restarted my computer. That was the last time I saw my files. My trusty little Seagate was no more. I won't bore you with the various efforts I made to resuscitate my drive, but I've been doing this sort of thing since hard drives were THIS BIG *holds out hands* and held THIS MUCH *pinches fingers together*.
I think heat may have contributed to the drive's demise. Although it never seemed to reach uncomfortable temperatures, it was mounted inside the case using 4 rubber stand-offs (part of Antec's noise reduction solution), and this may have prevented the drive from dissipating heat properly, especially during the dog days of summer. I will attempt to find suitable washers to put in place of the stand-offs, which will hopefully keep the drives cool without causing too much noise.
The replacement drive, also a Seagate (I'm not superstitious), is a whopping 500 GB and is pretty zippy at that, although it's still mostly empty. I managed to recover most of my files, save for about 100 GB worth of MP3s and rips from my CDs. I also learned that iTunes will only allow you to download a song once, which means that the songs I had purchased now belong to my hard drive... nom nom nom!
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