So, I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can’t afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn’t lose all my work.

  • nailingjello@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It was already mentioned that you can swap your hard drive /SSD easily and pretty cheap, but you can also use an old thumb drive and install a bootable USB version of Linux to test it out. While not ideal, this is probably a free since you may have an old USB thumb drive laying around.

    Allows you to test Linux as well as test the rest of the laptop hardware to make sure it’s working properly (if the USB booting works well, it’s probably just your existing hard drive.