Fortunately for me, I knew his health was ailing and made sure that the data was backed up a few months ago. It’s likely that the ailing hard drive was also the cause of some intermittent system failures on what should otherwise be a perfectly healthy computer.

A few mornings ago, upon boot up, I received something along the lines of an operating system not found error. This puzzled me, since it was a fresh install of the Windows 7 RC, but now I know it’s because the already failed hard drive (and yes, I forgot it was installed) came back to life, zombified, and the bios inserted it first into the boot order.

Wups.

Now it’s kind of silly that I had reformatted and reinstalled Windows on what I considered the main drive, but what’s done is done.

Y3KC1QQE, you were a trustworthy storage unit for five good years, and were one of my first 100GB+ hard drives. However, shameful though it is to admit, you won’t be missed. There’s a new kid in town that Samsung sent over, and he has 10x the capacity you did.  Goodnight, sweet prince.