A couple weeks ago I started to get the Blue Screen of Death randomly. I started by thinking it might be a recently installed program so I uninstalled everything that I had added, I then tried system restore, and after that didn’t work I tried taking out the Memory because that is a common problem.
But intermixed with this was that my computer kept on not detecting the hard drive on boot and eventually it got to the point where I could only have windows up for about 5 or 10 minutes. I am fully certain that the problem is a hard drive failure and being that it is only 14 months old I decided to send it in for a replacement for manufacturer’s warranty.
Thinking on it, it almost doesn’t seem worth it though as it’d only cost me about $100 for a brand new 500GB HD, and it’ll likely cost me about $40 to send in this hard drive in order to get a replacement for my 320GB HD (would likely cost about $70 to get a new 320). It has crossed my mind that doing it through warranty is more effort than it is worth. But honestly, I think this is what they count on anyway. At the end of the day, if it had lasted 6-9 months more for HD prices to drop further, I may have decided to just get a new one… if it were $75 for a 500GB, I think that would have been worth the extra $35.
Anyway in a round about way this has been my explanation of why my updates have been more sporadic. I am now using my laptop as a primary computer which is doable, but not as comfortable to type long posts and thus I probably won’t post much for the next few weeks.