I lugged not only my 'new' laptop back to my final resting place, but also the MB and HD from my den PC. I purchased a case from a local family run computer company and in an utterly warn moment, agreed to pay for them to do the rebuild. He called today to tell me the HD had failed.
Sad fact of life they fail, but this was my first ever failure since 1982. That's if you don't count the Seagate Black Armor network drive just a few weeks ago.
I picked up the drive and put in onto my laptop via a vantec SATA/IDE adapter. It made various high speed sequences of vibrating noise and later settled into a donk donk . . . . donk donk routine. However, moving the plug caused windows to report connecting and disconnecting with its coded tones. At no stage did a drive letter appear in Explorer.
There was a clear lack of solder in one of the PCB points adjacent to the plug and with great excitement I shorted that out. Buggah all.
Short of swapping the main drive circuit with an identical one, I'm out of ideas, and it's not likely I'll find one of those. It's a WD5000AAJS Caviar, and with a silly name like that, it's probably been waiting years to get its revenge on the human race.
Thousands of scanned photos. Many on laptops and the like, but the solid filled folders were the ones on the two drives that failed in quick succession.
Any ideas? A hammer perhaps, but is this an indicator that one shouldn't carry conventional drives through security check machines. The MB was carried in checked baggage and was opened by security. They did not re-wrap the memory very well, but computer man tells me the MB is okay. I'm too disheartened to even look at the new case.
Oh, and do I now lose my OEM copy of W7 Professional?
