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More computer tales
posted 2006/04/15 at 22:54

Yggdrasil Mark I is continuing to operate well here after the installation of the new hard disk. There are a couple of things here that kind of bother me here, though. First of all, I haven't taken my old hard disk out of Yggdrasil yet, even though I think I've already moved over everything of relevance from it. I worry that the hard disk failed because of overuse (I've had a nasty tendency recently to leave my computer on overnight all the time, mainly to keep my IM programmes running in the hopes of hearing from those special somoenes), so I'm thinking that I'd be best served to get the hard disk out ASAP if just to use it at this point as a kind of backup disk. Related to that, right now my computer is still recognizing the old drive as the C: drive while the new hard disk is showing up as the E: drive. (The DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive shows up as the D: drive.) It's been a while since I was really into this kind of stuff, but if I remember correctly this doesn't actually pose a problem, it's just more of an incovenience, right?

By the way, this incident has now convinced me more than ever that Norton Utilities is one of the biggest wastes of my money I've ever spent. I'm still using the anti-virus, but you'd think all those disk detection tools would have said something before my drive just up and died on me like that. Grrrrr.