I tried getting my paralel Windows installation ready to finish a homework for tomorrow. Unfortunately, it froze (just as my Linux), giving a “Cyclic redundancy error”. Rebooting in Windows didn’t work.

Therefore, I ended up with an almost dead HDD. There is a slight chance of me being able to recover the data on the Linux partitions. About the Windows partitions, I don’t know. Unfortunately, I think there’s a problem with the HDD that causes data corruption. A colleague of mine has the same type of HDD (Maxtor, SATA, 120GB, 8MB cache) and he also had such a problem with his HDD. I managed to fix it by filling it up with zeros. The bad sectors were gone and data didn’t get corrupted afterwards. Pretty strange.

The HDD is less than 6 months old, but my supplier doesn’t sell this type of HDDs anymore. I wonder why. I plan getting a Seagate HDD now, either instead or next to my almost-dead HDD. I will try recovering my data when I find some HDD to backup it first (create an image of the damaged partition).

Expect low-Internet-activity these days, also because my mid-term exams are starting.