Looks like my newest hard drive decided to die on me tonight. This is only the second hard drive that I’ve ever lost which is saying a lot because I’ve owned a lot of drives. Although this could have been a huge data-loss disaster I was fortunate. I didn’t lose any of my valuable data because it was all being stored on my other drives. The drive that failed was my Windows XP boot drive. The boot drive on my computer is swappable so even though I lost this particular hdd, I was up and running again in a matter of minutes. I simply had to remove the failed xp drive and replace it with my ubuntu drive and I was back online.

Once I booted into Ubuntu, I went straight to Western Digital’s website and scheduled an RMA replacement. I was expecting the process to be a pain in the arse but it was actually quite easy. Within fifteen minutes I had everything taken care of. They are going to mail me a replacement drive and I’m just going to mail the broken one back to them. I just hope that the new hard drive doesn’t give me any problems.

Now I don’t use Windows XP as my primary OS but this whole ordeal has caused me a few inconveniences. First off, I can’t play any of the computer games that I want to. SUCK! I don’t even play games that often but it seems that now that I can’t… I want to! I guess that’s how it always goes. The other annoyance/inconvenience deals with my youtube videos. I have 4 new videos that are ready to upload and I can’t get them off of my camcorder because Canon’s proprietary software doesn’t want to work with Ubuntu. Right now I’m searching the internet for alternative software that will enable me to do this.

Hopefully my new hard drive will get here soon and I’ll get XP back up and running again.

Also, here’s a video I made about this very same topic…