This is my broken harddisk. It doesn’t look broken, but it sure sounded broken when it started rattling tonight. I tried to make a quick backup of some of the files, but it stopped rattling, and died before I was done.
Luckily, I use two harddisks, and this one that died didn’t have anything vital on it. All photos are on the other, newer disk, as well as my work files, email, music, programs, and quite importantly, Windows itself. I’ll now have to go buy a new second disk though, as a backup for when the other one decides to die.
One thing that apparently was residing on the broken disk, was PhotoShop. So, instead of looking through piles of old CDs and find PhotoShop and reinstall, I did a quickie: downloaded GIMP, and used that. Also, I used my son’s Powershot A470, as I had forgotten to charge the batteries for my DiMage Z1. Quite a good camera actually, if only it would have aperture and speed settings.
