Well, Elizabeth loaned out my laptop to some friends and when it came back it was messed up. I had been having some issues out of the hard drive for a long time, but it was still working.
I got it back and it was having hard drive input/output errors. So, I figured it was either A: Hard Drive Failure - or - B: Software corruption. I proceeded with the easier/cheaper of the two which was re-installing the OS. I use Linux Mint 15 on my Desktop All-in-One and on my laptop. Surprisingly it worked for a couple of days just fine. Then, the HD failed for good. :-(
The entire computer would not do much with a bad hard drive posting errors, so I had to remove it and hook up my external Seagate Backup+ 1TB to it. I re-installed Linux on it and voila! Here I am making a blog post from the laptop. It is kind of a pain in my ass to have a laptop that has to have the hard drive hooked up by wire all of the time. It is more likely to get damaged or have issues now.
It will work fine for now until I break down and put even more money into this computer. I just keep fixing everything as it breaks, so it keeps running... I usually upgrade every part that breaks as well. The 160 GB hard drive went out. It now has 1 TB. The 500 GB hard drive went out in my HP a couple weeks ago. It also has a brand new 1 TB internal drive. The bad thing about the HP is that it only has a couple hundred GB of space left, so it needs its external backup drive back ASAP.
This morning started early... well not exactly early, but definitely early for the man that stayed up all night working on a computer. I helped James mow grass at his late Grandmothers house in Walkertown. We got it done pretty quick, so it wasn't too bad, even though I didn't get too much sleep. The worst thing that I felt because of lack of sleep was being sore. I don't know, maybe it is just old age. lol. Later.
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