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Hard drive failure

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Andrew Paquette, PhD
Apr 25, 2025
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I’ll explain this image at the end.

First, last night I received a !CRITICAL WARNING! message on my computer, telling me my hard drive was about to fail. Then, a BSOD (Blue Screen of Doom). My system froze, my program crashed, and I decided to quickly save my data by moving it off the affected drive. Seconds after I started that process, my computer cras…

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