Hard Drive Failure on my PC

[Got the Bug]

Hey Bro,

Boston sounds cold right now. Get out of there before it starts snowing!

Thanks for the offer. I moved through the anger phase today and (after finding out the cost of recovery) have blown off any plans to send it out to a recovery shop.

I'll give you a call or email you when the new hard drive arrives.

[289fia_cobra]

doug, I do have a "spare" Hitachi" 20GB drive. Rather old but functional from what I'm told. Problem is, your Dell likely has a controller for a higher capacity drive so I don't think it'll work.

These days with USB keys hitting 8GB capacity, there's no reason you couldn't just off load critical data onto a USB key. It's effectively solid-state but IF you want good archival media, I'd burn a CDROM. I've done this for my old VW website so if I ever lose the source on the HDD, or if Comcasts loses it (can't see how though), I can recover.

Need to do that for my Cobra site now since the updates aren't happening frequently anymore. That and all the family photos. Then store them in my vault.