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To: goldworldnet who wrote (275)	12/8/2016 3:27:54 PM
From: locogringo	Respond to of 1380

I don't recommend 2nd hand or rebuilt drives. I fully understand. A while back, my wife's laptop was doing strange things, like trying to boot up numerous times with a blank screen. You could hear the drive spinning and trying to find the boot sector. Eventually, it would start up, sometimes after 10 minutes. I rewrote the boot sector, but it didn't help. Then it would stall and lock up, and I know I had about 24 minutes or less to find a replacement. The geeks at Best Buy wanted to put in a refurb and with service it was more than a new Dell! I probably could have just replaced the drive and restored from a backup..........but the backup was only on a separate partition, and not a different drive. DUH DUH DUH. She has a new Dell with an external backup. It lived long enough to transfer everything over. I will play inside the desktop without any problem, even with my eyes closed, but I won't do much in a laptop. The last time I took one apart, I couldn't fit all the pieces back together and I broke the screen trying to fit in back in.