Re: Replace Hard Drive After 3.5 Years?
From: Rheilly Phoull (Rheilly_at_bigpong.com)
Date: 03/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:07:02 +0800
"James Sweet" <jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Elle" <elle_navorski@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:eM5%d.15965$qf2.14393@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > I walked away from my computer for a couple of hours, tops, yesterday. I
> > came back to it and the display and mouse were frozen.
> >
> > It's a 3.5 year old personal computer (Gateway, with a 20 Gigabyte, 5M
> Ultra
> > ATA hard drive). I ended up powering down, when starting up received
error
> > messages and then a failure to reach the Windows display. I ultimately
> > struggled through a Scanddisk from a Dos prompt and was able to recover
> > most, but not all, my personal files, copying them to floppy diskettes
> (3.5
> > inch type). I shoulda been backing up at least once a month, but wasn't.
> > Anyone else procrastinating: Man, don't do it. Stop now. Back up your
> files.
> >
> > A tech support person at Gateway said hard drives don't usually last
> beyond
> > five years. Some die at three years. I've found support on Usenet for
> this.
> >
> > My computer's running again, but to thwart another massive crash, is it
> > worth putting in a new hard drive? I've got $80 to spend, and I figure a
> > nice one will run about that.
> >
> > I installed a new power supply (that is, transformer) last summer. It's
> > power and so heat output aren't that different from the old one. It
seems
> to
> > be working out fine. Otherwise, all else is original equipment.
> >
> > My last computer was a Hewlett Packard. It "died" irrecoverably after
only
> > thee years. The shop couldn't fix it, though maybe I took it to a lousy
> > shop. So this is very discouraging. Throwing away $800 every three years
> > ain't gonna cut it anymore. So I've had it with these big brand names.
I'm
> > ready to build my own, and think at this point I have enough expertise
to
> do
> > so. I'm certainly not going to throw money away on a shop trying to fix
my
> > computer again. It seems to me much of the expertise involved in a
> > successful computer repair involves simply patience and persistence.
> >
> > How about the CPU? Should I investigate replacing it, too?
> >
> > All suggestions about whether a new hard drive is worth the investment
and
> > the CPU are welcome.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
>
> Hard drives are second only to optical drives in how often they tend to
> fail. The disk drives being fragile mechanical components are virtually
> always the first thing to go, 3-5 years is typical for one that's been
> heavily used.
>
>
Regardless of the equipment, if ya doing something that ya don't want to do
again, or its data thats not replaceable ya have to back it up a couple of
times. Keep a copy of site too !
Just dont be lazy then we wont have to hear yet another "Oh dear I havent
backed up and now I want to get my data back" messages :-)
-- Regards ..... Rheilly Phoull
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