25 years of MS PCs w/ hard drives w/o fail, preceeded by 14 years w/ mainframe computers and Atari home PCs...
FWIW I have owned hard drives in PCs since 1989. My 1st was a hard-card I bought for a Kaypro that I used to produce my doctoral dissertation and a steel bridge inelastic analysis program for the Transportation Research Board. I wrote a structural engineering textbook on a 1996 Gateway w/ a 256 Mb HD IIRC.
I am not a 'dummy' unable to move w/o assistance.
What I am in the aspirations of PC producers is a witless boob who is supposed to forego the notion of the 'personal' in PC.
This latest total loss of control of our W8 computer and the data stored thereon has been an eye-opener (which may not mean much to anyone who knows my vision is less than 20/200). I cannot tell you how much misinformation I have encountered in the past 4 days while trying to shake this problem down,
But I have learned that the LAST thing on the minds and hearts of anyone in the PC-industry is my personal ability to manage my own PC.
