ilovecode

Just over a year ago, I purchased a Dell Inspiron 8600 when they ran one of
their infamous $750 off anything over $1500. I got a sweet widescreen
notebook with a Pentium M processor. I love this thing! Now, about 8
months ago, i had a couple of problems with the hard drive, but the
issue seemed to work itself out and I haven’t had any problems with the
hard drive until recently.

A couple of weeks ago, I woke up to check my email and my black screen said: No
bootable disc found. Greaaat! So, I rebooted and everything worked
fine. A couple days later, it happened again. It took my putting my OS
disk in the drive to get the system to boot up. Once I did, I started
copying all of my data to my external drive. Made sure I had EVERYTHING
I wanted backed up.

Finally yesterday afternoon, it died. After several failures and eventual reboots, the harddrive was no more.
I tried and then cried when it didn’t work.

With Thanksgiving being two days a way, I was wondering how in the hell I
was going to get a laptop hard drive delivered to me in time. I pulled
up bestbuy.com and saw they had some online, so I loaded up the kids
and off we went. Well, Best Buy doesn’t carry laptop hard drives in the
store. Next I went to Circuit City. No luck there. They don’t even have
them on their website.

I even have a friend who offered to buy me one from a compusa nearby and ship it to me Next Day. I was so
tempted, but they didn’t have any in stock. SO, I come home and start calling the local computer part stores and Office stores, etc. The
“computer department” guy at Staples tried to tell me that since my laptop was a dell, i could only purchase my hard drive from dell.com.
Nothing else would be compatible. Now that’s the biggest load of crap I’ve heard in a while. I just LOVE being talked to like I know nothing
about computers. I’ll save that for another rant.

At this point the shakes are starting to kick in. It’s like taking the needle out of an addict’s arm. I’m not quite sure how to function without it.
It’s sad really, but it’s the truth. I was complaining to my friend Keri about it and she suggested I try Fry’s/Outpost.
But, I assumed the earliest I would get it is Friday. Apparently though, if you order by midnight, you can have it by noon the next day.
So, I called their sales department to verify this and it was accurate! I ended up getting the Toshiba 100GB. I was scared to find out what shipping would cost, but it was just under $10! Fry’s, you have a new customer!