Bad, worse....

[oyceter]

And a bad day gets even worse, as my laptop goes from making vaguely wrong hard drive noises to the blue screen of doom, sounds that are perfectly reminiscent of the FIRST time my hard drive crashed, to refusing to reboot. Luckily I managed to back up some of my personal files before the entire thing went kaput. Unluckily, I didn't get all of them. Even worse, my warranty ran out, probably sometime last month, just to piss me off even more.

Need I repeat that this is a new hard drive, installed in my laptop after the first new hard drive did the exact same thing five months after I got this brand new laptop? The only reason I am not typing in all caps to indicate total and complete hair-rending frustration and impotent anger at Toshiba is because I'd be capitalizing absolutely everything. I think they should forget about repairing it, try to recover all my data for free, and then give me my money back so I can go buy a Dell. My first Toshiba lasted three years and probably could have kept on going. This one has hit a year and a month after one equivalent to a near-fatal heart attack.

I am so pissed off.

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Re: slight possibility

[oyceter]

Boy took the laptop over to the nearest Toshiba center, and they said they'd charge $85 just to take a look at it!! I think I'm just going to end up getting a new drive... right now it's doing ok, so I'm transferring data like mad, but basically, it's shot. Sigh. The boy says that it's an actual physical problem... something about the head getting scratched, I don't know, and that not much in the laptop itself could cause the physical damage.

Stupid Toshiba. I swear a blue streak at you.