Harddisk Replacement

Just like the death throws of a monster you'll read about in fantasy books which brings along one of the good guys. Yeap, that's what happened to my old harddisk a few months back. The power supply gave way, belching smoke, it brought along my 40GB Western Digital HDD along with it.

Okay, he HDD isn't exactly that important because it's an aging HDD and the irony is that my older 10GB Quantum HDD actually survived, but wait, there are some photos which are in there which can't be taken again. That's when I started looking for people who does data recovery on HDD and to my surprise there are about 3 of them here in Malaysia. Well to weigh it between a few thousand RM to recover my old data or just to pay RM185 for a spanking new 160GB HDD.... you do the math.

So here it is, my spanking new 160GB Seagate HDD for RM185 complete with a 5 year warranty. On the flip side, there's gonna be more eggs in this basket to loose this time.




The note on the HDD says that in order to get it to utilise the ATA (yeap, I'm still at this old stuff), I've got to place the jumper on CS and set LBA on the BIOS, which if you leave it to the BIOS to handle it automatically it'll just choose CHS for you.

Next step is to install my old faithful to it's former glory as I normally work on Linux and it was sitting on the old HDD that died.

Stay tuned for my next entry on Linux installation.... (I've got my eye on OpenSuSE 10.3 and Sabayon 3.4)