Another bit of my laptop falls off.

[bouteillebleu]

This time it's the hard drive, which has made its most vocal protests yet since an unfortunate incident in which I dropped a book on it (the laptop lives on my desk, which is under a bookshelf - I do like the amount of space for books in these rooms, but they're in rather annoying places). It's been crashing every couple of days recently, so I went to reformat and reinstall Windows, and the blasted thing gave me a blue screen a fifth of the way through the reformat. [1] And so I'll be spending some money on a 40Gb Seagate drive when any friends next make an eBuyer order. I've managed to get the current drive working by only formatting a 5Gb chunk of it, but it still clunks when it tries to read bad sectors.


1. I know, the Setup menu is also blue. This is a proper Windows NT-based blue screen, with the "argh you have accessed the wrong memory" and "zomg I will not let you do this reformat". So to speak.