An open letter to my hard drive.

Dear hard drive,

As your owner I feel it is time for the two of us to have a little chat about your performance lately. Now don't go acting like you weren't expecting it because it's obvious that this was going to happen.

I want to start off by saying that I love you and you are a valued part of the computer. Having said that I need to tell you that I am disappointed in your actions and the only reason I am writing you is to help you get back on track. With that in mind please take the following as constructive criticism.

I guess this whole thing stems from the other day when I found you, crashed, in the computer case. Now, I like to think that I am a modern computer user; I turn you off at night, I defragment you regularly, and I give you as much RAM as I can afford. I thought we were doing well together. I just hope you know that all those times I reformatted you it was for your own good. Back when I bought you, you were such a little spark plug, so fast to retrieve data, and barely a peep out of you. I just don't know where I went wrong. Maybe it's those other computers that I've seen you networking with. Is it that Mac down the hall? Are you holding viruses for the other hard drives? You know that doesn't make you "cool". They won't respect you for it!... Sorry that's not constructive.

Just please boot up so we can talk about this. Remember, you are my hard drive and I am not giving up on you...

...until the Future Shop has another sale.

sincerely,

-Paul