Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I think it's dead, Jim. Just not sure what to do now. Got home, plugged it in and it immediately started the clicking and whirring. A boot disk didn't help, because it's not recognising anything and I have no way of kicking it and making it do something other that whatever it is it's trying to do. (Well I can physically kick it, obviously, but that wouldn't help much :P)

To me this says my HD is borked.

silenttex - a question for you. Is there ANY way of taking the HD out and stuffing it into another box as a second HD in a bid to extract information from it? I'm sure the answer is no, all the information on that drive is lost to me but I'll try anything once at this point :)

Second question, for everyone :), I clearly need a new HD but it's been years since I did any component shopping. Any suggestions for a good HD with ooooodles of GB storage? What sort of prices am I looking at?

However, I do have good news. After much muttering, cursing, use of crowbar and copious amounts of duct tape, I've got my Win '98 box all sorted out and I have my internet and email back again. Hurrah! Took some doing though, but I got there. Once I had internet access, upgrading stuff and patching things was a hell of a lot easier. Good googly moogly IE and MSN took some updating :P Flash, java, VB scripting, gawd knows what else. And then upgrading AIM caused Msvcrt.dll to be overwritten causing all sorts of interesting IE crashes. Found a good fix for that in the end but sheesh!

However, I am impressed deeply by how much help is still online for Win '98. *cuddles her internet*

In not so good news, I've rediscovered Snood, which I never transferred over to the new PC. Oh dear. That's a few more hours of my life lost to a game :P

It's funny how the loss of so much stuff on my other PC is being soothed by the fact I can get online from home. Possibly I need counselling....