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Hard drive doings

January 9th, 2007 at 06:11 am

Monday (1/8)
Savings log - 3$
Spending log - 2$ coffee, milk + 11$ lunch w/tip

I just wanted the hot fat lunch today. I got my receipts and forms and UPC codes from my new hard drive and installer all xeroxed and sent them off.

The mechanics of the hard drive doings went off without too much of a hitch. One of the screws holding the hard drive bay was stuck, so DH and I had to reverse drill it. Whew, it worked! The owners manual was nearly worthless, so it was a case of unscrewing things, working carefully, and saving the screws. The manual was okay for getting the bay open, but for the rest - well, I got the feeling that the laptop maker didn't really want you to do it, so they didn't describe it.

My laptop didn't recognize the hard drive at first - there's a little plastic and gold electrode extender thingee on the old hard drive that had to be put on the new one. Once that happened, the laptop recognized the hard drive. Unfortunately, the cloning bit didn't work, but the converting the old hard drive to an external drive did. So its rebuilding what I had and rediscovering my preferences, and learning a whole lot of things that'll forget in a few years.

I have to be a bit blase about it. I now have much, much more space, the hard drive is now new (old hard drive came with the laptop - 3 years!) and most of what I had on the old drive was outdated items anyway. I have five tasks that I really want to do quickly (monitoring my fiscal data is one, this journal is second, other writing is third, music fourth, surfing fifth). So I backed up what was meaningful to me before I tried anything...and let the rest go.

Tonight was surfing and making the screen look like it was supposed to. I'm here, but it wasn't easy - I eventually had to download and reinstall the video driver.

The whole process was exciting and I learned a lot. My friends are very impressed, even more than they were from adding more memory. And it was a lot cheaper than having the guys at Fry's do it. Sometimes being frugal is being adventurous and fearless.

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