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Remember a few days ago I said that when I needed to reinstall my laptop I’d consider a Kalyway (Mac OS-X hacked for the PC) partition?

Well, I lied.

The gods of hard disc reliability didn’t take kindly to me last weekend when they decided to kill the disc in my laptop. It was running fine all last week, but when I opened it up Saturday morning it was behaving very strangely. A reboot or two later and a plain, simple I/O error was all I got on boot up. Dang.

I didn’t lose anything of value but extremely inconvenient timing. I think the only thing I didn’t have backed up was the last few days of photographs – so I’ve lost maybe 50 shots.

Given that I have to be productive with this thing right now I don’t have the luxury of spending time working out hacked operating systems that don’t earn me any money. So, it will have to wait until next time. Right now I’ve reinstalled pretty much everything I need, although as usual, the next few days will reveal all those little things you forget about.

Small aside: Picked up a 250gb disc for $115 at CPL. Sweet. Much, much more room than before. The disc that died was 80gb.