About a week ago, my laptop started giving me random BSODs. Then it decided it didn't want to boot anymore, and it would spend a full day on CHKDSK before I pulled the plug on this fruitless endeavor.

Looks like my hard disk is toast - the first time a hard disk has been the cause of death for one of my PCs. All super-important stuff is backed up (including my good friend Note.TXT), but some less important stuff isn't backed up.

I'll still be checking this place (and maybe a few others if I'm lucky), but for the near future I won't be very active in the online world - my main focus will be backing up what I can and looking for a new laptop.

Please don't set anything on fire while I'm away.

Not fun. I had some serious technical issues with my main PC recently myself, and had to get it replaced.

But, the laptop I got is a lot more powerful than the desktop I was replacing with it.


My best advise is to think it over a bit, look at your options, and find the best one for you.




Here, why don't you come warm up by the fire.

My labtop wouldn't properly start cause the hard drive went Kablooey!

I was getting worried after not hearing from you for a while! Sadly, laptops and hard drive oopsies are a common combination.
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Edited by: Miles, Nov 4th, 2018 @ 5:46 pm