Recently, Agnes Brach wrote to me with a question that, eventually, applies to all of us:
Hello Terry,
I enjoy your newsletter very much. I have a question that has been on my mind for a while. I have an old computer which i would like to recycle, but have absolutely no idea [...]
Reader Ian Holland wrote after reading one of my Special Edition Newsletters, which sometimes go to email subscribers:
Hi Terry,Just read your VERY absorbing newsletter, I have a ( moronic??) question about those SATA hard drives.
I recently ( 2006) built 5 pcs for the office ALL with SATA drives, and they are all the same [...]
I hope it’s just coincidence, but I have just suffered my second hard drive failure with Window XP SP2 — in two months. Fortunately, I can avoid the cost of a hard drive recovery service, since I back up my data nightly across my network to my Linux box.
Both failures were internal hard drives. Both [...]
In one of my Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters, I answered subscriber Peter Lieurance’s questions about reinstalling Windows XP.
The following week, I finally did the hard drive replacement that I had been planning. Ultimately, I returned unopened Seagate 200GB drive that I had just purchased and got a Seagate 250GB drive for the same price [...]
Recently, a Terry’s Computer Tips reader asked me about problems he was having in installing a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive in his computer.
We corresponded back and forth until the problem was solved.
Read about the SATA problems and solutions in Adding a SATA Hard Drive to Your System