So I got myself a 300GB external hard drive a few months back, silver finish with a neon blue light, very neat, in fact Rachel will probably remember me drooling over a picture of it at work when I was about to order it. As soon as I got it I was overjoyed & backed up everything I had on to it, however my computer being a pensioner now only has USB1.1 so the transfer rate was slower than a tortoise. For this reason, I invested in a Firewire Card (cheap only £10 including postage & packaging). Now all is great.

Last week I figure I should reorganise my filing sytem (on the computer, you wouldn't catch me dead with a REAL filing system.) & here's where my stupidity comes in. I remove all my mp3's from one of the three 100GB partitions, so that I have one FAT32 partition for older computers to be able to interact with if necessary. So far so good. At this point my old hard drive in my computer starts bleeping, honestly literally an hour later after I delete, what are the bloody odds of that?? I restart the computer to find it won't boot up. It works fine if I disconnect it though. Fricking great. So I've ripped it out & plan on testing if its actually dead on another computer very soon. All my 50GB or so worth of songs are on it. I pray it comes out of its coma when I connect it up, else I lose some of it.