Waste of a good hard drive
Oct. 8th, 2009 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleIt appears that the hard disk shipped with my HP TouchStupid (which has been nothing but trouble) has some serious problems of its own. Bad firmware, apparently, and the update they provided is in itself bricking disks pretty reliably. According to that site, "only drives which have not already locked up can be updated with the new firmware." Oh well. What a freaking waste. Perfectly good drive gone to hell. If anyone thinks they can restore it to function, it's yours.
Went out and paid $99 for an overpriced 500 GB Western Digital drive from the local Staples - the curse of living in a small town. Though it still stuns me that they are affordable at all. Hope it works.
Update: Yeah, it works. Never been so happy to see a computer actually boot again, I had figured it was going to be a total loss.
Went out and paid $99 for an overpriced 500 GB Western Digital drive from the local Staples - the curse of living in a small town. Though it still stuns me that they are affordable at all. Hope it works.
Update: Yeah, it works. Never been so happy to see a computer actually boot again, I had figured it was going to be a total loss.
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Date: 2009-10-09 05:55 am (UTC)