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It began a few weeks ago. Things didn't quite seem right on my home computer. I suspected that my d: drive might be heading into the dumper. So, I set out to find a new hard drive and by coincidence, BEST BUY had them on sale. An 80GB Maxtor for $95. Pretty good deal I thought... so off I went for the store. Got there and realized they were sold out (of course) and wiped out as well of most other large size drives. So, back home I trekked empty handed. Apparently, that was the wrong course of action.

Two weeks later as I grabbed my cup of coffee, read my morning email and started for the door, I had a hard time opening the d: drive. I thought maybe some software I had installed was the culprit and decided to wait till I got home to deal with it. Again, a misstep.

At work, as I PCAnywhere'd into my home computer, the troubles continued. It was then I decided the drive was definitely dying. I tried desperately over PCAW to copy files off the d: drive but it kept failing and rebooting the computer.

I told my boss at work what was going on and made a beeline for the door. When I got home, the prognosis was not good. I tried time and time again to get into my data on the drive and copy it off. After 4 hours of trying, I gave up. The drive was pronounced dead at 8:23pm Thursday.

The sadness then set in. Over 2 years worth of downloaded MP3 files were history. Luckily, other files that were on the drive were actually backed up including a good many business files and my wife's embroidery business files.

Worse than anything else was the realization that this now brought to a total of three f**king dead Maxtor hard drives in 2 years. That was the last straw. I will never buy a Maxtor drive again. So, a Western Digital 100GB drive now installed and will soon be in RAID configuration with a second 100GB WD Drive.

By the way, all the content from the former server... gone. Toast. Done. I even went to the Internet's Way Back Machine to see if there was an archive but unfortunately, the answer was no.

Please join me in a moment of silence for my drive, it's music and this former site.