Hard drive crashed

[bootneck02]

The day before yesterday my hard drive died (RIP) hard drive. so off to Maidstone and Maplins yesterday and bought a new 2 tb drive and rebuild WHAT a pain in the bottom. Anyway back on the run now I hope I did not miss anything important

 

[Taffycat]

Aww, sorry to hear that @bootneck02, but hope it will soon be 100% fixed.

 

[bootneck02]

We are getting there TC slow but sure.It did come as a bit of a shock but the drive had been in use for some time and had various Operating Systems downloaded onto it over the years.

 

[EvanDavis]

I was going to post a cheeky comment like " How many is that this year ", then I remembered it is 2017 so have to come up with a different cheeky comment like " First one of the year "

 

[bootneck02]

Sorry Evan to correct you but this is the first time that the electronics have let me down and actually I have been running Linux for just over 2 years. Now if I were running W10 now that would be another matter I was always crashing Microsoft's efforts and having to rebuild.

 

[Abarbarian]

Tough luck but at least you know how to sort things out. Maplins is a bit expensive for kit though you would get better value elsewhere.

 

[bootneck02]

Yes but I would normally order on line but as my PC did not work and I have no other means of contacting a supplier I was colloquially known as buggered., I did think of PC World/Curries but they are the other side of town and Maidstone is a swine to get through in the middle or any time of day. At least I could pop into Maidstone and out again in about 3/4 hr. I do have a mobile but never use it (never think of using it) and really never switch the thing on also don't think it is charged. Never mind back on line now. Not really a techie.