How Old is Your Laptop?
Some components get older faster
The laptop I use when I need to escape from the office and work outdoors or in another part of the house is almost three years old and yesterday, without any warning at all, the hard drive died. It blue-screened on shut down and when I tried restarting it failed.
So off it went to the computer shop where our partner diagnosed a some corrupt sectors in a critical part of the hard drive. Fortunately I store almost no data on the hard drive of the laptop so nothing was lost except some time.
It seems that laptop hard drives have a tendency to fail around the three year mark so be warned, if you keep important data on your laptop’s hard drive make sure you back it up regularly and if you can avoid storing data on an older laptop’s hard drive then do so because it can all be lost in the blink of an eye.