HD Fail on Dell e6400

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

Yeah, I've suffered the wrath of the hard disk gods. Notebook gave me the good old HD fail the other day and for the past two days I've been trying to piece my digital work-life back together.

(please, someone ask how it is a guy like me does  not have a good backup)

So, another day or so and I should be 80-90% - what a pain!

[Jim Jensen]

My Lenovo gave me a HD failing warning. I ran a backup, but need to find out what Lenovo wants to do - replace it based on their software indicating so, or wait until it actually croaks. Still under warranty at least.

[Jim Jensen]

Called Lenovo support this morning. I must say it was quite easy. I simply read them the notification message from their hardware checkup software that runs periodically, indicating the hard drive was failing and they are sending me a new drive plus the Win7 install disk since they didn't ship one with the computer when new.

[Mark]

(please, someone ask how it is a guy like me does  not have a good backup)

Sorry - I refuse to ask!   

[Hans Manhave]

(please, someone ask how it is a guy like me does  not have a good backup)

Sorry - I refuse to ask!   

I'm afraid of 'the look' I would receive!   

[Jan Regnier]

Ok, I'll do it...... RICK - HOW COULD YOU NOT!!! HAVE A BACK UP? 

[Billy Welsh]

My next laptop, whether business or personal, will include the SSD.  Not immune from failure, of course, but generally speaking a much lower (expected) fail rate.

Will at least look at the option for next desktop purchase as well.

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

Ok, I'll do it...... RICK - HOW COULD YOU NOT!!! HAVE A BACK UP? 

the truth is, the ext. hdd I used for backup was my own and I recently took it home b.c. I needed it for Time Machine (backup my Mac) - I was backing up to the cloud to some degree using SpiderOak, but I have not got that running yet to find out what I might have saved.

I acquired an external HD explicitly for the work laptop... better late than never I suppose.

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

Finally got back into SpiderOak - restoring about 100MB of critical data - cloud backup chalks up a big win on this one!

[Jan Regnier]

Ok, I'll do it...... RICK - HOW COULD YOU NOT!!! HAVE A BACK UP? 

the truth is, the ext. hdd I used for backup was my own and I recently took it home b.c. I needed it for Time Machine (backup my Mac) - I was backing up to the cloud to some degree using SpiderOak, but I have not got that running yet to find out what I might have saved.

I acquired an external HD explicitly for the work laptop... better late than never I suppose.

OK....you're in our good graces again...LOL   

[Hans Manhave]

Great referral for SpiderOak too.  I must do something myself.