Deadtop

Thursday, 8:00 PM: The laptop decided it could boot no longer.

The hard drive was not listed as a boot-able object in setup. The warranty expired months and months ago, so Carrie and I opened the laptop up for a looksy.

I used to open up and build desktops. Times have changed. Everything is a third of the size, four times the power, and there's no need to reach through a mess of IDE and power cords going to all the peripherals.

Symptoms pointed to a hard drive issue.

I texted John some pictures to reminisce. He suggested I should move the HD to a new SATA port to make sure it wasn't a port/connection error.

The HD didn't work on the new port either. Carrie started to research replacement prices online. We ordered a smaller replacement HD off Amazon for $80. It didn't have the gigs of pictures and videos the old HD had, but it was much cheaper than buying a new computer.

A couple of days later, Carrie got the bright idea to cannibalize our other really old laptop for it's hard drive.

And it worked! How else would I post this?