healyg | An update to that computer problem I was having (Reply)

Remember that weird bug I was experiencing, back in April? Well, I believe I may have narrowed the problem down a tad. Given the large amount of whirring I heard from it after booting up today (and it did that for a good long while, too), I'm guessing the problem is IMMINENT HARD-DRIVE FAILURE. This wouldn't the first time that this machine has suffered IMMINENT HARD-DRIVE FAILURE, either. I had to take it to the shop late 2013 for that exact issue, and it took months for the shop to fix it. The way they told it, none of the Windows Updates and such were working, even on a cloned drive. So they replaced the hard drive, and luckily they had most everything backed up, so I didn't lose any data. And now it's happening. Again. I'm trying to back up everything I can before the IMMINENT HARD-DRIVE FAILURE commences, but I'm finding it really hard to prioritize which files to save. I don't even know whether I should bother fixing it this time, with the new Windows 10 machines on the way; I suppose I could just get the shop to back-up all my data like last time and see where to go from there.

Anyway, if there's any unexplained absences from this blog in the next couple of weeks, this is probably the reason why. See you later.