SennSational

Not too long now before we get our hands our this:

/bounce

50 points for anyone that can tell me who coined the phrase “What can go wrong, will go wrong“. Today was the day that happened and boy, it was painful…

Wow…

I just had the worst 3.5 hours - our ISP had a hardware failure on a switch somewhere and consequently, our internet access died. I was lost, I watched Friends Bloopers, I watched Love Cats, Just Can’t Get Enough…

We’re all okay here now though, the internet is back and we can safely surf away [I mean in a work context of course]

My god, the time is ticking and the wedding draws ever closer. Am I panicked?

 A little, yes…

So after a rather hectic few weeks the decision has been made and we’ve signed the dotted line for a shiny new car. For both of us, it’s a new experience to have a completely, never been touched, brand spanking new car.

We don’t know when we actually pick it up, I believe we’ll hear about it early next week…

Well, the problem has been fixed. I exchanged a number of emails from Lacie who imformed me that the drive would only be repaired if I had proof of purchase. As the drive was a gift and the original purchaser is now overseas, I didn’t have this. They also informed me that whilst repairing the drive, they will erase anything that the drive contains.

So I removed the drive itself from the Lacie enclosure (it’s a PATA Western Digital 200GB) and plugged it into another box (directly onto Motherboard) and hey presto, the drive works. So I popped out, bought another enclosure and now have a fully working drive.

I’m amazed at the number of posts I’ve seen regarding faulty external hard drives and wonder if the fault lies in the enclosure or the drives for most of them…

Still, I have my games back