My laptop was totally unstable in this month, it always gave me a blue screen and died... After I reinstalled XP on my laptop three times in three weeks, I found out the problems was cause by the hard drive. I also figured out that the warranty of my laptop does not expire yet, I can just send my laptop to the IBM repair center and ask them to give me a new hard drive. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to send my laptop to there and wait for the reply and I have many homework and projects to do, so I decided to buy a new hard drive for my IBM X31.
To buy my new hard drive, I visited a website named NewEgg.com. They provide very good price and many choices. After I surfed all the hard drive, I decided to buy a fast one. I believe it will improve the performance about 50%, it is a little upgrade for my poor IBM X31.
Because I want the new hard drive very bad, I used UPS 2 days service, it is a little expensive but worthy. If I used original 3 days service, I would not get it until Monday. UPS provides a very convenient service, you can track your package on the website, and it will tell you where is your package right now, and the estimated arrival time. But this service does not always provide correct information, it told me that my package will arrive on the Friday morning, so I dropped one class to wait my hard drive, but no one knocked the door... The bad thing is that I have a lab session in the afternoon, so I can not stay at home... Fortunately, my roommates came back right on time!! I used my fastest speed to finish the lab and rush home, after I get home, my package was directly laid on my bed!!
After I installed the new hard drive, everything go smooth and SUPER fast!! I am not sure whether it is stable or not, but I believe that I do not have to reinstall my laptop in six months~
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