Unfortunately, the hard drive on my computer is going bad again. My computer froze shortly after I booted up this morning. When I rebooted I heard noises coming from the drive and got the blue screen of death. Fortunately, the drive is not completely unusable, just unreliable, and I was able to boot up and keep running long enough to back up my data.
I am migrating to Windows XP which I have on another removable hard drive. I was unable to get any work done today because I had to repeatedly boot up the bad drive and copy data off it. I also needed to install a lot of software on my Windows XP drive.
This is the second time my hard drive has gone bad in recent months. It could be due to the video capture and editing I’m doing. That causes a lot of hard drive fragmentation and stress to the drive. I really need to back up my data more often. I also need to update my backup system in case my computer becomes completely dead. I need to set up Internet access and install a lot of software on that backup system before it will be ready in a pinch.
