When Good Hard Drives Go Bad

Here’s a question: what goes chirp, chirp, CRUNK, chrip chrip, crunk chirp?

If you guessed Tsiolkovsky’s hard drive, you’d be sadly correct.

First, the Ubuntu side gave us this wonderful message:

I think this is really quite an excellent way to put it: “…and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to risk your time and data upon it.” Good advice for a bad situation.

Then, tonight, the Windows side gave us this gem:

Less informative, but just as ominous.

(Fortunately, Tsiolkovsky is still under Panasonic’s excellent warranty. But only for six more weeks.)