Long time, no post!

Forgot I had this blog lol, I'm now at college, been here a month or two, and classes are going OK. I've had the hard drive in my new dv9700t fail with bad sectors and ended up getting a warranty replacement from HP (great customer support, drive arrived quickly and I swapped them out at home, didn't have to lose my PC for any bit of time at all, and I had a few days where I had time to clone the old drive to the new one so I didn't even lose any data!). After that, I installed Mac OSX 10.5.2 on my dv9700t to try it out and now have XP running on it as well (that's 4 OS'es in total, quad boot FTW!). I also overclocked my graphics card using a BIOS modification a few weeks ago.

Today, however, my trusty old ThinkPad A21p laptop that I got used on eBay a few years back suffered from a hard drive failure. I figured this would happen, as the drive has been making clicking noises and such for a while now, but the inevitable came and my drive failed, I backed it up though so no big deal, and I'll be ordering a replacement drive this weekend to get my good old Pentium 3 laptop up and running like new again. Considering it was made in the year 2000 and was probably a business PC before I got it, that hard drive sustained a huge amount of wear and lasted 8 years, pretty impressive for any hard drive, let alone a laptop one. I'm going to attempt recovery of the drive this weekend (just for fun) by disassembling it and cleaning the platters, trying to re-align the heads, etc, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to make it.