after not even a year of having my awesome computer, suddenly a hard drive has failed. i have no clue what happened! everything was fine, i was hanging out on second life, decided to go to bed, closed programs, laid down, realized i forgot to open thunderbird (i like to check email as soon as i wake up) and the program wouldn’t open. that was odd so i went and tried to get into drive F and open another program. at that time i could get into drive F but it was slow, i tried to open another program and it told me it could not read the drive and that it was corrupted.

i tried to restart and preform chkdisk but it wouldn’t let me. it took forever to get to my windows log in and now when i try to double click on F it just tells me its unreadable. now i’m sitting here with a program running that is supposed to salvage things but i am severely worried. its not a hardware malfunction, as i do not hear the awful sounds that come with that, and it is found by the disk management tool that comes with windows 7, but it says that its ‘RAW’ which apparently means its unformatted or that something is wrong (yeah duh…)

so right now i’m sitting here while this other tool runs a scan on my giant 1tb hard drive, a scan which is probably going to take several hours. i am severely upset.