{"id":221,"date":"2012-02-23T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-02-23T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:02:37","slug":"the-computer-is-dead-long-live-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/the-computer-is-dead-long-live-the-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer is Dead, Long Live the Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, it appears I get to see how good my backup software is.\u00a0 I currently use CrashPlan, and have everything backed up to their online source and then backup the Users folder to an external hard drive as a separate backup set.\u00a0 One of the things that drew me to CrashPlan over Carbonite was the flexibility of multiple backup sets and destinations&#8230; but I digress a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Our hard drive looks to be failing (nearing the completely failed state).\u00a0 We have had this computer for a while; and both DVD drives have been spotty at best (they work when I can get them open, but that is the trick).\u00a0 Recently, nearly every time the computer boots it runs CHKDSK, but still boots.\u00a0 This past week, however, I got a pop up from Vista that it is detecting the hard drive is failing and that I should backup immediately and stop using the computer until I fix or replace the drive&#8230; Yikes; that&#8217;s almost worse than the old blue screen of death, because this was specific.<\/p>\n<p>To try to extend life of it a bit, I ran through a full disk check last night, it appears to have taken about 6 hours or so to complete and all seemed ok when I started up this morning.\u00a0 To be safe, I checked on my backups (whew, 100%) and moved a few folders over to the USB drive just in case&#8230; and this morning, I got the call&#8230; &#8220;Honey, the computer says it can&#8217;t read from the boot&#8230;&#8221; yep, that will nearly seal the fate of this computer, or at least hard drive.\u00a0 So, now I have to either buy a replacement drive and rebuild Windows (which means getting Windows 7, something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a while) or buy a new computer&#8230; which brings up lots of possibilities, build one from scratch, go with a Mac, etc.\u00a0 Regardless, it&#8217;s a lot of $$$$ I wasn&#8217;t planning on spending.\u00a0 Hopefully I can squeeze just a bit more life out of it, or we may be going using the iPad a bit more for a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/the-computer-is-dead-long-live-the-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, it appears I get to see how good my backup software is.\u00a0 I currently use CrashPlan, and have everything backed up to their online source and then backup the Users folder to an external hard drive as a separate backup set.\u00a0 One of the things that drew me to CrashPlan over Carbonite was the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/the-computer-is-dead-long-live-the-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}