Laptop Frustration~External Hard Drive

My laptop is Four and a half years old!

I know that is old by some standards. It doesn’t have a big hard drive,only 50 GB. About three weeks ago I was having major issues with it. I called a local computer guy (who is great by the way) and he came to my house (love that). He ended up having to take it for a few days to resolve the issues. I had used up so much space on the hard drive that it kept quitting on me. Before he took the computer I bought a portable external hard drive called Seagate FreeAgent Go 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive-Black ST903203FAA2E1-RK. So my computer guy Mark loaded all my data onto the FreeAgent Go. I was so happy and everything was working great when I got it back. Now to my frustration. The hard drive didn’t not come with a long USB cord and being a mom I have to get up quickly at times and so I dropped the FreeAgent Go a few times. About four days ago it stopped working! I called Mark and he said it wasn’t a good thing! He is coming this afternoon to see if he can get it to work!

Why do they not make a portable hard drive more durable?!!

So I ask myself and Mark for that matter! Why do they not make a portable hard drive more durable?!! When it is portable it will get dropped. I have dropped my laptop on more than one occasion and it has not quit working! Mark suggested I buy another external hard drive one like this:Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDH1U10000N. This is one that is not portable and it could be a back up for all of my data. I think this is a great idea but again my frustration why should I have to have another hard drive!

Panicked!

Now one of the reason I feel a little panicked is because I am an avid genealogist. I have collected my family history for 25 years! I have some back up copies but…not the most recent information I have collected! The good thing is that the FreeAgent Go is under warranty until 2014 and I can have my data retrieved. I haven’t found out how long that will take but I anticipate it will take a month or longer to send it away and have them retrieve my data!

Update!

I will keep you posted on what happens! I do have an update I promised a week or so ago. I have finally tested out the headset that I purchased for my husband Charles’podcast. I bought the Plantronics Foldable USB Stereo Headset (Optimized for Laptop Use) (Audio 470 USB). I tried it yesterday and it works great! I sat down and I had my 2 1/2 year old sing a song. She was at my knee and you could barely hear her. So I believe the noise canceling with be perfect. Most importantly I didn’t sound like I was in a tunnel! I would recommend if for anyone!