That time my main PC just died mid-project at Kinkos

Last Tuesday I was printing a batch of 50 flyers for my neighbor's garage sale and my hard drive made this grinding noise then went silent. Lost everything including the file I just saved. I had to run to Best Buy at 9 PM and grab a backup SSD for 80 bucks, then spent till 2 AM recovering what I could. Has anyone else had a drive fail at the worst possible moment with no warning?

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paul2511mo ago

Dude that is brutal. I had a very similar thing happen last year. I was at the public library printing out 30 pages of my resume because I had a job interview the next morning. My laptop just gave me the blue screen of death out of nowhere. I literally had to run to the nearest Staples and buy a flash drive for like 15 bucks, then use the library computer to redo everything from scratch. It took me until like 11 PM and I was so stressed I barely slept. There is nothing worse than that feeling of your computer just giving up when you need it most.

ben_nguyen1mo ago

Honestly, those library computers are usually slower than your laptop would've been anyway.