Spamming the flist

[sapote]

It's bad when the left half of my laptop is making lawnmower noises, right?

[Poll #1154067]

Also, I have an actual work-related thing today, fantabulous and eek. I have to go do my hair and put on good shoes. \o/

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I vote for "start backing stuff up fast". Because I live in a state of paranoid terror about losing data, and having backups is a comforting thing no matter what you do after that.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

My poor roommate, I so impose on her external hard drive. But at least there's an external harddrive around that I can use!

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Check that opening it won't void the warrantee.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

It's IBM refurbished and I bought it in 2005, so the warrenty's long-gone - though I will say this for Lenovo, they kept up my tech support much better than I expected them to with the buyout.

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

I second the Make Backups Immediately plan. It might just be the fan.

But what if it's the hard drive?

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Backing up. If it survives through the day, I will backup tonight. Yay for the flist and its advice!

[gerbal.livejournal.com]

The brother says:

Its either the hard drive or the fan, only things that move.
Is it a skidding metallic sound or a clicking noise. The moment it sounds like metal on metal backup immediately and take it to the repair shop. Your hdd will be toast but you can save your data and get a new *bigger* hdd.