Day

It’s definitely been one of those days today. Half the team at work are off sick, and someone in the other department managed to destroy knacker their laptop hard-drive to the extent that the heads have impacted with the disc platters. Now, this is something I’ve never seen happen without the application of a fair amount of force (i.e. thumping) or gravity (i.e. dropping) – it takes an impact of some sort to do this.l

However, on this occasion we’re dealing with the miraculous. The disk heads have somehow magically impacted with the platters without any application of force whatsoever. In fact, the laptop has never even left the person’s desk. That’s quite impressive.

The other downside (having already bought a new laptop drive) is that it’s a Compaq laptop (hey, don’t blame me, I only work here) and as such the drive cage is – shall we say – a cunt. Two of the four screws are fine and standard, the other two have a weird head on them, which is going to require the application of force and brutality a star-head screwdriver. Thanks Compaq for making life SO much more simple…