It's true!
My hard drive gave up the ghost!
One minute I was intending to defrag the darn thing and the next it just, well--defragged!
It just froze in place.
I couldn't believe it! One minute it was doing fine; the next it was locked up tight and I was staring at a defrag command that never got to run--Poor thing!
So I hit the usual "Cntrl-Alt-Del" key and got--zilch! Not a damned thing!
I tried it again, adding a little more emphasis; "Cntrl-Alt-Del", dang ya'!
Nothing moved.
OK, sez I to myself. If you won't move, I'll just "off" y'er butt and restart. Windows always knows how to come back.
No, it doesn't. Oh, it fired up OK, but it wouldn't access Windows at all. Instead, I got an error message that said, "you can either start in Safe mode, or in Normal mode--click on your choice!"
So I did--clicked on "Normal" and I can tell you it definitely is NOT normal, 'cause when it came back, it said the same stupid error message!
No matter how many times I tried, it did the same thing! Not even in safe mode!
"AAAARRRRGGGHHH!" I screamed. "Honey, I fried my hard drive. It won't work any more!"
"It hasn't worked in years," she answered, unsympathetically.
I just couldn't handle TWO major problems at the same time, so I sat while all the air went out of my sails.
Finally I stirred myself and, admitting defeat, called for help.
Result?
$200 for troubleshooting.
$85 for a new hard drive (but a good one they said!)
$30 for recovering all of the programs and files on my old hard drive and transfering them to the new one.
$50 for additional memory.
So you can see it's sometimes pretty expensive to freeze the hard drive---no matter WHAT the wifey sez!
(I just wish the darn thing DID work---I'd show HER a thing or two! Hummph!)
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