{"id":209,"date":"2005-11-18T02:24:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-05-29T02:28:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T07:28:32","slug":"seagate-barracuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2005\/11\/seagate-barracuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagate Barracuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my computer died two days ago. it rebooted automatically and then halted at the boot screen with a message saying &#8220;Hardrive failure is imminent. Backup immediately.&#8221; i turned off the computer immediately, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kusumah.net\/\">harry<\/a> and asked if he had ever seen such a message before. he had and he also advised me to back up immediately and get a new hardrive. i called skid and asked which should brand i should buy since he has had two hardrives fail on him in the past. his recommendation was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/products\/personal\/barracuda.html\/\">Seagate barracuda<\/a>. i had two Western Digitals in my computer.. a 60GB and an 80GB.<\/p>\n<p>the computer never did turn back on. the warning message was about the hardrive but the CPU had died too. doh! i had a 2.5 Ghz Celeron and i decided to upgrade to a 3 Ghz Pentium 4. i had to buy a motherboard as well since the old one had fried itself along with the cpu. it was probably some kind of a power surge that killed everything.<\/p>\n<p>in the meantime i connected my laptop to my dell 2405 for a very odd computing experience. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infonec.com\/\">infonec<\/a> worked on my computer for a day and a half and installed the new motherboard and cpu. i also bought a 120 GB seagate and a DVD writer for backups and today i spent most the day installing Windows XP and setting up all the required programs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/computergoboom_01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[SB]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/thumb_computergoboom_01.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"komputar boom!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/computergoboom_02.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[SB]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/thumb_computergoboom_02.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"komputar boom!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/computergoboom_03.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[SB]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2005\/thumb_computergoboom_03.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"komputar boom!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>luckily the hardrive that was going to fail imminently only had a few corrupt folders and i did not loose much. phewh. a very sudden and expensive upgrade&#8230; but wow, <a href=\"http:\/\/steampowered.com\/Steam\/Marketing\/January13.2006\/img\/CSS_Militia.jpg\">CounterStrike<\/a>  runs soo much better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my computer died two days ago. it rebooted automatically and then halted at the boot screen with a message saying &#8220;Hardrive failure is imminent. 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