Beware if You Use a Laptop
Some components die young
Yesterday was one of those odd days when I worked hard yet seemed to achieve very little. I guess I should have known it wasn’t going to be a great day when my laptop refused to fire up.
The laptop I use when I need to escape from the office and work outdoors or in another part of the house is almost three years old and yesterday, without any warning at all, the hard drive died. It blue-screened on shut down on Sunday night and when I tried restarting yesterday morning it failed.
So off it went to the computer shop where our partner diagnosed a some corrupt sectors in a critical part of the hard drive. Fortunately I store almost no data on the hard drive of the laptop so nothing was lost except some time.
It seems that laptop hard drives have a tendency to fail around the three year mark so be warned, if you keep important data on your laptop’s hard drive make sure you back it up regularly and if you can avoid storing data on an older laptop’s hard drive then do so because it can all be lost in the blink of an eye.
There was one good thing come out of that failure - I lost Internet Explorer 7 and had to revert to IE6. The more I use IE7 on one of my PCs the more I think it’s a waste of time.
