A Surplus of Hard Drives

[kevin_standlee]

I've put in a request to Dell technical support to see if they'll replace the hard drive that failed while I was in Oregon. That was the largest of my hard drives, at 80 GB. The second-largest (60 GB) was in the backup computer on which I'm running now. Besides those, I actually have two 40 GB drives left over from older, retired machines. I've put one of those 40 GB boxes into one of the computers and am runing a CHKDSK on it to make sure it's okay, and then I'm going to do the same thing to the other 40 GB drive later or tomorrow if possible. (It's possible the other 40 GB drive was never formatted, though.)

My two Inspiron 600m laptops are identical, other than the older of the two is slightly more worn. (The backup machine wasn't used that often.) I might move the working 60 GB drive from the backup machine into the "main" machine and redo the profiles, espeically if Dell won't replace the defective drive (I think it's still under extended warranty, but I'm not certain).

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yes, the drive is here; I haven't had time to install it yet, though. I expect to give it a shot this weekend.

[(Anonymous)]

Kevin,

I just wanted to check in and see how the hard drive swap went. Hopefully you’re back up and running without any problems. Please just let me know how everything went and if you need anything else.

Thanks,

Mike.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I got the new drive installed and working. What was holding me up from returning the old one was that the old drive did manage to boot even though it continues to test with a bad sector. That being the case, I was uneasy sending it back loaded with so much of my personal data, so I had to spend some time erasing as much of the drive as I could, and that took a couple of evenings.

I have my personal data erased from the drive using one of the file-erasing tools. (I sort of wish I'd had a bulk magnet handy.) The old drive is now packed up in the return box and I'm going to drop it by the DHL office on my way to work this morning.