I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later: the harddrive in my laptop is dead. It plays music instead of stores data. Chirps and whistles and a lot of clicks. I kinda wish I could have sampled it before killing the power. I’m not sure if there’s anything on there that I don’t have stored elsewhere. I haven’t remembered anything that has been irrevocably lost, and I hope it stays that way.

I have a couple options as to what to do with it now:

• sell it for parts
• keep it for parts (not really)
• replace the harddrive (and flaky DVD drive and battery), and make it a useful laptop again
• run it as a diskless laptop. The bios supports booting from a PCMCIA device, but I’m not sure if there’s a wireless NIC that would handle it. The onboard ethernet card would work, and since my battery is toast, I’m tied down regardless.
• drop it off the balcony. A waste of a nice LCD, though.