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Post by spike99 on Jul 30, 2010 0:03:58 GMT -5
Late last night, I'm using my main desktop (which is a 5 year old Win XP - SP2 tower box) at my basement desk area and its IE 8 starts acting wierd. It starts doing other weird things as well. For example, "lockups for 10-20 seconds", then it starts acting normally again. Then, I finally found the root cause of the problem. Its large D: "data drive" (which is its 2nd physical drive) went for a dump. I can see its drive letter but its now physically dead. Luckily, I backed up my system 1 months ago. So, not too much data was lost. Luckily, email (on its C: drive) is still ok and any data files stored on its desktop folder is ok as well. Now... I'm "on the hunt" for a new computer - since replacing its data drive isn't financially worth it... Was hoping to get a replacement Intel i5 computer this Christmas. Now, I'll use the "back to school" excuse for a new purchase. But still, its timing to crash does suck!!!
Word to the wise... Remember to perform regular backups. Especially your most critical data files. Lesson learned the hard way...
Hope this helps others...
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