Well, the bad news is that my laptop's hard drive is dead, dead, dead -- despite some additional attempts at resuscitation this morning. Plugging it into another machine caused that machine to die instantly on startup, just like Shelby's. We even used the hard drive copier (apparently sold mostly to the police forensics market; it comes in a padded cloth bag with a screwdriver and flashlight, so that you can suck the kiddie porn or illicit financial records off of the perp's computer in the dark while your partners trade shots with his associates) -- the copier transferred the contents of my drive to the new drive without a hiccup, but it also copied the fatal flaw too, as that drive then became Son Of The Drive Of Death.
The good news is that IBM will be sending me a new hard drive tomorrow (maybe Friday). The double-plus good news is that my Thinkpad is now old enough to be eligible for replacement, and there's money in the budget, so I'll be getting a new computer soon. (The bad news is that it'll be another Thinkpad, but you can't have everything.)
Posted by Kevin at January 19, 2005 07:27 PM