myslashdotusername's Journal: most definitely, the 30 gig hd failed...

some of my anime on it have numerous 'errored' sectors, and trying to redownload failed to 'recover' the errors, and then the drive returned a 'SMART' drive failure imminent code ;)

so we've pulled the log data, misc files, and are trying to extract the 'recently' downloaded anime.

VMware is an awesome tool, and now i no longer need my 'disfunctional' dual boot scenario, as i can 'easily' run the programs that run best in linux/freebsd etc in vmware, and just use windoze for everything else :)

Gentoo is off my list for 'trying' to install for a while. I did a lot better on my third attempt, but clearly i'm pretty egotistical when it comes to thinking i know better than gentoo's walkthrough.