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So for the last several months I've had constant hard drive problems that have required me to reinstall the operating system more times than I care to remember. At the most frequent it's once a week at the least once a month. I tried switching from Windows to Linux. The Ubuntu OS works nicely, but the problems with data corruption continue. The problem was that the hard drive for some reason or another keeps restarting itself messing with the data. I've tried just booting from the CD. With Linux Ubuntu you can boot and run the OS off of the CD without installing anything. However for some reason the hard drive keeps restarting which wouldn't let me boot off the CD. I've completely unhooked the hard drive which seems to be working for now.

This machine has fowled up 2 hard drives in the last 6 months. I'm supposed to get all the components to build a computer, but it won't be able to happen for another month at least. Meanwhile my sister and I will fight over who gets the "good" computer. My grandpa has two computers hooked together. I might be able to talk him into letting me replace my tower with his "backup" until the new computer comes in.

I'm actually kind of upset that this tower has to go. I've gotten many good years of use out of it. The hardware has been "obsolete" for a long time, but it's been very reliable. Before 6 months ago it only had to have it's operating system replaced once for a virus and another time for me stupidly deleting the OS. That's all the trouble I've ever had with it in over 5 years.

Actually the case will probably stay, but it will have to be gutted of the motherboard, power supply, and most other components. I'll keep the RAM because it's a 1gb chip I've only had for like a year.

Anyway I can't wait to get this all done.