Last night the hard drive on my work-issued laptop bit the big one. Yes, the
sound of wind chimes emanating from a laptop is not a good thing.

Thankfully I am a records manager that actually practices what I preach. All
my documents and work files were saved to my personal network share or to
our legal team network share. I did not loose anything important. New hard
drive in place,  I have been restoring my settings and fussing with other XP
particulars off and on this morning.

My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad about 3 years old. Our tech person told me that
they are experiencing many hard drive crashes lately as 3 years is about the
lifespan of one of these drives. I don't know if that's a typical lifespan
for a well used hard drive in a laptop - I am guessing the answer is yes.

So along the lines of hard drive destruction is hard drive preservation. I
think it is prudent to back-up all data regularly. This is the first time
I've ever had a crash like this in all the years I've had PC's. I assume
I've been lucky.

Rock on!
Sharon

Sharon Burnett
Seattle Washington USA

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