It all started with a nearly silent hum. I paid it little attention. The second symptom was a slight vibration. If the laptop was on a hard surface such as a wooden desk the vibration and sound was amplified it seemed.
Yes, I should have acted on the warning signs. I didn't then and am now paying the price.
The hard drive failed. It's a horrible feeling to know that data, text and image documents and contact records I have spent hours creating or archiving may be lost forever. Time to backup your hard drives and important documents people. Stop reading and go do that right now.
As painful as this computer catastrophy has been, the optimist in me thinks that this will be an opportunity to improve how I work and live. Without the equipment failure I would not be thinking about how I plan to sort and store files in the future. Now go back up those files my friends. Yes, back up.
Like the annual Spring cleaning ritual closets and garages undergo, this unplanned exercise in digital reorganization will lead me to a better (and more secure) solution to file management. Now go back up! I'm not gonna tell you again.
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