Some of you know that I have been having a good time lately with a Hard Drive crash on my desktop. It appears that my 400 GB Western Digital (yes, another Western Digital) has crashed and went into a really weird state (... even more fun to troubleshoot under Windows 7 ...).
For a quick description, in case you see something similar, my desktop went to a state where the OS was unusable, but no errors were being thrown. Friday night, I played a Podcast for my son and let him listen to that, Saturday morning, when logging onto my PC, I logged in and then sat and waited for the desktop to appear.
Well, this of course, was not normal behavior, so I eventually (after waiting 5 minutes) performed a hard shut down. Upon rebooting, I was greeted with the same issue, it made it all the way into the OS, but wouldn't make it past the log in screen (even though I typed my password right).
Given that I recently upgraded my Video Card (love my nVidia 9800 GT), I thought maybe my PC had finally overheated and my Video Card was toast. I started pulling things apart, inspecting the drives and looking for / smelling for anything that didn't look right.
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise, I didn't find anything ... At this point, I was really concerned, but let my PC sit and just didn't even want to think about it. Instead I just worked on the laptop throughout the weekend.
Come Monday, I spent some serious time looking at the parts and dropped another, smaller, slower drive I had in and dropped the OS onto the drive to allow me to check all of the other components. I spent the rest of the evening verifying that everything else was working as desired.
... I hate Western Digital drives ...
I now have, shiny, a second 1.5 TB Seagate drive and I have mirrored the two drives to allow me a little better performance. SO FAR ... SO GOOD ...
I have installed Windows 7 flawlessly and it appears to be running very nicely. I have data being restored to the PC from the backups and it shouldn't be too much longer until my PC is back up and running exactly as it should be.
Have a great night!!!
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