Perhaps there is something on the drive that is causing a problem? I wouldn't put it into the next computer. Perhaps a rootkit?
Last time my computer died I replaced it with a Dell Precision workstation. I treated myself nicely. I got a relatively small SSD drive and a huge Buffalo external NAS device. The only thing on my hard drive are the programs I use and the source code for my websites. Everything else - documents, music, video, downloads, photos etc goes on the NAS. I have a program that synchronizes my SSD drive to the nas, and another that keeps backs up the websites to the NAS and keeps many versions so I can go back to a snapshot at any day in the past 7 days. (I also back up to MOZY and to my live web server) This way - the next time my computer dies, I can just replace it or reinstall windows, copy the files from the NAS and be back up quickly. The speed difference is amazing with the SSD drive. Especially Dreamweaver. I can actually use the "find in entire local site" function. At 11:44 AM 9/7/2011, you wrote: >My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard >drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple >months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked >too. > >Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what >brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP >and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL >Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and >PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. > >Dell? >Lenovo? >Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? >Acer? >Gateway? >Others? > >Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347299 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
