Yep, this is a fun situation. Half way installing an add-on for Visual Studio, when I hear a 'crunch' sound, followed by a continual clicking noise. The machine is still going, mouse moving etc. but no programs will do anything, unsurprisingly.
Opened up the machine, took out the hard drive. Didn't look visually wrong (not that I expected to see anything of course) until I read the label - on top there was a big sign saying "DO NOT BLOCK THE HOLE ABOVE THIS LABEL". And guess what? The hole was blocked, by dust. The whole disk was boiling hot, so my only guess is that it's some kind of ventilation hole or something - but still, damn :/ Let it cool down, plugged it back in a few hours later, and still the horrid mechanical clicking noise. My hard drive has failed me, for the last time
It's a shame too, because now I have the disgust of saying that my 120 gig Hitachi Deskstar (which is ~4 years old now) lasted less time than the 4 gig Quantumn Fireball in my old Packard Bell (which must be, what, 9 years old now?)
Pretty funny to be honest, besides the fact I have lots of very very unreplacable data on that disk, and I lack the money for data recovery (before anyone says so, yes, I do back up stuff. I have a 160 gig portable Western digital for that job - infuriatingly though, I planned to get the backup going [for all the data created in the last few months] on Tuesday
)
Besides my HD though, anyone else had any particularly comical events with their HD along the lines of "DO NOT BLOCK THIS HOLE"?
Note: I'm using my secondary crap machine for this post, and due to its limited 'abilities' I probably won't be back on IRC or regularly posting until at least the end of this week
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
