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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading