My harddrive didn’t really make that sound this time, but this evening while backing up, I got endless corrupt files, and when I finally rendered the drive insensible enough to open up Terminal and dig around smartd I found 20 or so fatal errors. So I’ve been copying over to my backup drive the last week’s files, and trying to make sure it’s all ok. I’m thinking of putting that drive into the PowerBook, but at the moment, many files that get created or modified seem to end up freezing the system. I’m far too poor to afford either a new drive or a much needed new MacBook, and I don’t know how long this drive is going to hang on.

Blogging might stop for a bit.

(edit …)

It’s Thursday morning and I’m waiting for my bicycle to arrive from Melbourne, so I’ve had some time to reassemble everything I salvaged from my dead drive with my last backup. Everything seems to be ok, but … lurking madness might be somewhere in my Home folder. Anyway, I’m now running my life off a 2.5″ firewire drive I bought in Hong Kong on a 6 year old PowerBook that pretty much doesn’t work. Kinda precarious…