21-01-2004 02:57									#1
	Having Hard Drive Problems Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

My main Hard Drive has been dying a slow death, over the last several months and it's looking like it might be going faster than I had first thought. I'm starting to get BSOD's and the HD is making ominous noises.

I'm working on backing stuff up and I hope to find another HD with atleast 10 GB in the fairly cheap range, very soon.

E_T

	21-01-2004 03:48									#2
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Try www.newegg.com I've always had great luck with them on about anything computer related I've wanted.

I just checked and you can get a fairly decent hard drive for $50-75. That's actually gone up since I just bought an 80 gig 7200 rpm Western Digital Drive from them last fall for around $50-60.


EDIT:
Just cleaned up the link, it took the comma as part of it for some reason.

Also, the 7200 rpm Western Digital Drives are going for $55 for 40 gig right now, and $63 for 80 gig just to save you the search.

Oh and for what its worth, I've ordered from them on 3 seperate occasions and have had 0 problems. I even had to return a bad DVD drive (wouldn't open when you hit the eject button) for a refund once, and they did that with no questions. In all cases, the stuff shipped the same day as the order or the next morning.

In total I think I've ordered the following from them:
40 gig WD drive, an 80 gig WD drive, a cd burner, the bad dvd drive and a replacement, a geforce 4, a floppy drive, and various smaller items (cables, fans, etc). Hmmm, well guess thats just about all of my current desktop except for the motherboard and cpu that I bought months before I heard of newegg :P

Last edited by wervdon on 21-01-2004 at 08:11

	21-01-2004 03:54									#3
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MZ told me about specials on viagra that he got as spam. Maybe that will get your floppy _ _ _ _.

http://www.compusa.com/products/pro...8096&pfp=BROWSE

http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Brow...nal+Hard+Drives

	21-01-2004 04:02									#4
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Perhaps, delete the "My Porn" directory ?

	21-01-2004 08:49									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Hot_Enamel Perhaps, delete the "My Porn" directory ?

Try removing the sharing option on the "incriminating evidence" directory as well. I've heard that can help, too.

	21-01-2004 16:29									#6
	Re: Having Hard Drive Problems Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

quote: Originally posted by E_T I'm working on backing stuff up and I hope to find another HD with atleast 10 GB in the fairly cheap range, very soon. E_T

How much ISDG stuff do you need to back up? Is there any of it that can be stored on MZO or by one of us, as a backup in case you lose all your drive (such a terrible thing to happen to a man )?

	21-01-2004 17:26									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Arnelos Try removing the sharing option on the "incriminating evidence" directory as well. I've heard that can help, too.

Arnie, WHY would I want to share the Incriminating evidence that I've gathered about other people. I don't want to lose my blackmail monopoly potential....

E_T

	21-01-2004 17:29									#8
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quote: Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt How much ISDG stuff do you need to back up? Is there any of it that can be stored on MZO or by one of us, as a backup in case you lose all your drive (such a terrible thing to happen to a man )?

Fortunately, I have my DP's Computer that's also networked to mine, with some space still available. I'm moving my ISDG (and other games) working copies over to it, so that I can keep them updated and not at risk

E_T

	04-02-2004 17:38									#9
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Well, I have a new Internet Broadband router for my 2 computers that's up and running fine (after a bit of work getting it all working correctly). And my new Hard Drive is installed and the files are transfered, it boots up great and it's currently looking good.

I'm running a very thorough Norton DiskDoctor check on it (running time approx 9 hours) and it still has 7 hours left to go. I'll try to get my orders up before I go to work tonight, but I'm not promising anything at this point in time....

Anyways, it's bedtime for me.

MoI E_T

	04-02-2004 20:00									#10
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Good night E_T, I hope it all works out

	04-02-2004 23:03									#11
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you can also try http://www.pricegrabber.com which links you to a bunch of sites with very cheap prices. I've seen 120GB WD drives for only $79

	05-02-2004 01:36									#12
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I had gotten a 20Gig at around 30 bucks. I really couldn't afford anything more expencive. As it was, My DP & I had Mac & Cheese for a few days because of the added expence for that week.

E_T

	05-02-2004 02:07									#13
	Got spare money?

D*amn, My DP's computer died and my backups were on it :shreek:

E_T

	05-02-2004 04:27									#14
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fix it the Mexican way: smacking it as hard as you can!