Drive swapping, just what I wanted
2022-Aug-19, Friday 14:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I was worried that my new computer was failing, since it was behaving weird and I was getting some stuttering in games. Today I noticed when I woke up the computer that everything had been minimized, though I didn't remember doing that, and it was the last straw. I ran a Checkdisk on each drive--C: (NVME OS drive) passed, D: (HDD) passed, and F: (games SSD) had a bunch of oddness. It took like five minutes to even start and kept getting strange hitches during the run. When I came back to the startup screen, I ran Crystal Tools and saw that F: had "BA59" Unrecoverable Error Count, which is 47705 when converted from hex. I downloaded Samsung's official tool to check the drive health, and while the basic test came back with no problems, the S.M.A.R.T. test itself failed before finishing. So, now I'm copying the games off to C: and D:. I have plenty of space--it's just annoying that a month after I got the computer and arranged everything I have to rearrange it all again.
I managed to avoid any long-term effects that I know about from my bout with the plague, and![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee probably did (her current health difficulties are hereditary and were probably triggered by her pregnancy), but I have another friend that came down with long COVID. He had it first back in April and then might have gotten it again from his girlfriend right before a trip to Scandinavia. In the month since, he's been plagued by joint pains and aches with no real explanation. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. He has a rheumatologist appointment but it's not until November--that was the earliest available--and he's hoping it goes away before then. Hopefully it doesn't take as long as my "long pneumonia" took to fade (twelve years!). 
The last bit of news is that my boss finally convinced me to keep working from home. We haven't been back to the office since May, and we're finally supposed to go back next week. Every previous time we were supposed to go back, my boss suggested that I could keep staying home untilsashagee felt better, and every previous time I told her that it was fine, I would go back. But this time, I talked it over with sashagee and we decided it would be better if I did stay home, at least for a few weeks. Our current schedule is two days in, three days out, which is pretty much my perfect ratio. Once sashagee feels better I'll go back, but she just needs a bit more time.
I hope everyone has a good weekend!
I managed to avoid any long-term effects that I know about from my bout with the plague, and
sashagee probably did (her current health difficulties are hereditary and were probably triggered by her pregnancy), but I have another friend that came down with long COVID. He had it first back in April and then might have gotten it again from his girlfriend right before a trip to Scandinavia. In the month since, he's been plagued by joint pains and aches with no real explanation. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. He has a rheumatologist appointment but it's not until November--that was the earliest available--and he's hoping it goes away before then. Hopefully it doesn't take as long as my "long pneumonia" took to fade (twelve years!). The last bit of news is that my boss finally convinced me to keep working from home. We haven't been back to the office since May, and we're finally supposed to go back next week. Every previous time we were supposed to go back, my boss suggested that I could keep staying home until
sashagee felt better, and every previous time I told her that it was fine, I would go back. But this time, I talked it over with sashagee and we decided it would be better if I did stay home, at least for a few weeks. Our current schedule is two days in, three days out, which is pretty much my perfect ratio. Once sashagee feels better I'll go back, but she just needs a bit more time.I hope everyone has a good weekend!
