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Nice trick. Sorry about the drive. Buy him a 64 GB SSD. Do not buy a consumer grade hard drive now. There is still a shortage, they are too expensive, and the distributors that supply NewEgg etc are getting the bottom of the barrel drives - the ones made in temporary facilities with machines that divers salvaged from the flooded industrial parks in Thailand and component suppliers that haven't been fully qualified. The ones that probably aren't going to last. The ones that Dell and HP won't accept.
It will be a while before we get anything for his computer. He can just use mine for the time being, I have all my stuff backed up on site. I learned the ram trick when one of my jr technicians tried it out ( unauthorized ) but it worked. It is like the computer is hijacking you canoe but falls into the water and can't swim.
Hugh, he wanted Carbonite after his last HDD failure but for the tiny amount of stuff he has for school didn't warrant it. I bought him a stack of CDRW's and a big flash drive but he "forgot" to use them. Luckily I save a file of everything he prints on my computer which is backed up.
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