This is your bi-annual reminder about regular diagnostics and backup procedures.
“Jeez, Unca Kurt! That’s boring!”
Sorry, chirren. This is Important Stuff.
This past weekend, I was thankful I had taken my own advice.
About 2 weeks ago, during my regularly scheduled diagnostics run, the program (the HP-supplied Hardware Diagnostics Tool, powered by PC-Doctor), the tests reported errors on my main hard drive. Specifically, it was an HD521-2W error code which meant (I learned, after a quick search) that IO errors were occurring on the main partition.
Translation: my C: drive was dying. (more…)
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