It looks like it's going to be another one of those days. I know I have a hard drive going bad on my primary machine, and after being an idiot and thinking I'd defragment the damned thing, it barely, barely wants to run. Which really sucks because I've got a lot of data on there that I don't want to lose.
But... I have a backup plan this time. Unlike last time, I can actually log onto the machine. It just takes about forty minutes for the thing to settle down long enough for me to actually do anything. Once I get everything off of that drive, which thankfully isn't a ton, I'm going to see if I can run a utility to permanently mark the bad sectors as bad so that fucking Windows won't write to them anymore. I've got a ton of hard disk utilities, it's just a matter of finding the right one so that I can do it and not have to fuck around with this problem again, at least until I get a new hard drive.
The best part is that I don't have to worry about losing any of my documents. The last time this happened I got smart and uploaded them all to Google docs. They were already in open formats anyway, so there wasn't any problems with formatting when I uploaded them. My bookmarks are all backed up with xmarks, so the only thing I really need to worry about is a couple folders of photos and music, some of which I've got stored offsite already. But rather than upload all that data, I'm just going to transfer it to another machine if I ever manage to get logged on, which may not happen anytime soon, it seems.
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