Death of a Hard Drive

A couple of nights ago our computer started acting a little strange. The Internet was running slow and we were getting a few strange errors in a couple of programs. Damien began immediately trying to figure out what was happening once I mentioned it to him. For a while he was stumped. The computer kept locking up and he restarted it over and over. After a couple of hours he started to suspect that it might be a virus or hard drive issue. His first thought was that he better get things backed-up. He copied the "necessities" to our secondary hard drive. As they finished copying over the computer locked up. When Damien tried to restart it, it wouldn't boot up - the hard drive was dead! I don't even want to think of what a close call it was. I had almost all of our pictures backed-up but almost none of our documents - which go back to when were in high school. I'm so lucky to have such a genius of a husband! We've never had a hard drive go out on us - ever! It is definitely a lesson learned and we'll be more vigilant about backing up from now on.

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Our New Computer

After having our old computer for over five years, it was time for a new one. The funny things is that even though it was so old is still ran faster than almost any other computer I've used. Of course, that had nothing to do with me but with my genius of a husband. Sadly our computer had to go. For the last six months we've had trouble with it overheating. The side panel is constantly off with a fan blowing directly on it - and we were getting to the point where that wasn't able to control the heat. It was pretty funny to just look inside and see the quarter inch of dust on everthing. On top of that, our 40GB hard dive has been "yelling" at us saying that it's out of room. After almost a year of that we've run out of things to delete. Luckily Damien is very resourceful when it comes to computers (surprise, surprise) and was able to buy new parts for less than even the cheapest Dell out there as well as use some of the parts from the old computer. Orin had a blast "helping". He loved to just take everything out of the tool bag and name things as he did and then put them all back in. He loved our little electric screwdriver so we left the old computer out for a few days so he could practice using it. :-)

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