I have owned an HP TouchSmart computer (sleek looking but it ended there) that has repeatedly had hard drive failures. Today was my 5th –yes 5th–you read that right, and last one!  I averaged a hard drive failure every 12 months.  Thank you, HP!

I managed to get HP to replace them through multiple calls to corporate, thankfully, but the joy was always short-lived.  It ALWAYS went on the crash again. The last replacement was January 9, 2012. Two years later and I am here again for the fifth and last time.

I”m finished!

This time, luckily, I am running two backup drive and hope they captured all the data I have on my hard drive. I just installed the second one two weeks ago!  Whew.

I was having keyboard issues the past few weeks, which I managed to resolve this morning, and then upon a reboot this afternoon, nothing worked.  Windows tried to launch and couldn’t. The PC tried to start and said there was a failure to try to do a recovery.  I tried three recoveries and nothing happened.  Then I ran a system check and up came this error.  The dreaded hard drive failure error.

Off to buy a new desktop PC. Any recommendations are most welcome.  I know many people swear by Apple, however, with my clients primarily on windows, I don’t think it is a wise move for me.

Bear with me now as it will take some time to get my office up and running again. I will be online on my laptop in the meantime but I have a lot of work to do to get things back to where they were.