And lo, £45 later, and one replacement Seagate is ordered from eBuyer.

Ooh, 8MB cache. FUN

Well - I now know why my Windows installation imploded last week. My hard drive was failing.

It's just gone terminal. I'm completely Mac based until I can get a replacement.

This is also the last time I buy a Maxtor hard drive. This one lasted the grand total of 4 months, and the other 80GB IDE in the USB2 box is also a bit cranky at times. YAY

I think the SATA controller on this mainboard is borked. It's now not finding the HDD after another Windows STOP error on a brand-new installation...

WindowsXP died. I've gotta reinstall, and I've lost all my data... including the 40GB of in-progress torrent downloads ( Read more... )

Well, today was lotsa MK randomness. Pizza was eaten. DDR was played. Lots of pointless walking was done. YAY ( Read more... )

So - because I wasn't in college yesterday to pick them up, I was handed my (provisional) January AS exam results in this morning's tutorial ( Read more... )

Mrs. Phillips (my Computing teacher) isn't here today. I could have gone home an hour ago. ><; Meh, I'm staying for the lesson anyway - unless *nobody* does, in which case I'ma skeedaddle with 'em ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, kyleechan. n.n

Yeah, I'm just posting to waste some time while Naruto 32 onwards convert to Windows Media so I can watch them later on my iPAQ. :D!

I feel like I should eat my hat. *does so*

Um, apologies for random sending of files earlier across MSN - basically, a file I ran (sent from my sis' PC, which made me think it was ok) stopped me from signing out, opening task manager to close it, and sending itself to everyone on the contact list without opening any windows to show for it ( Read more... )

Why are my fucking device driver files being deleted at random ( Read more... )