death of the driveFollow

Bummer! The hard drive on my main system fried on Tuesday. I convinced my son to go and pick up a new one for me yesterday. I work in education and this is a three-day weekend for me. I had hopes of getting some good EQ time. Instead I have been reformatting a drive and installing software. Unfortunately the hard drive didn't format the first time so I ended up formatting it a second time.

Around 1:00pm I began to install software. The usual order or drivers, Office, print drivers, and then the fun stuff. Since I play EQ Live and EQ II I have had the double whammy of installing each program and then the long downloads. I have a fairly robust system and a solid DSL line so I decided to do the downloads for both EQs at the same time. In the words of Pink Floyd, "I'm still waiting!"

According to the download pages I have less than 2-hours left on EQ II and a little less than 1-hour on EQ Live.

One day down and two to go. Come on EQ. Load, load, load....

Sorry to hear you smoked a drive, Zoo... Hopefully, your data is stored seperately, on a "D" drive and it was only an application drive that went down.

The good news is that these days, big juicy new hard discs are cheap, so replacement won't come too dear.

In most cases, warranties serve to limit a company's liability to the consumer, not protect it. Check your local laws... odds are, unless you've agreed to some sort of contract (like a warranty card) that limits it, you have a protected right for replacement of merchandise that does not stand up to reasonable, normal use for a reasonable amount of time. A year is far too short for a hard drive to die under normal use.