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Upon arriving at work yesterday morning, I was greeted by a blue screen with a KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR message and a STOP: 0X00000077 code.  As I rebooted the box, I received an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME with STOP: 0XC0000185.  Some quick research on another computer showed that these codes were indicative of a bad hard drive.   And Dell Diagnostics returned error code 0142 with status byte 78 when it checked the hard drive.  I called Dell with error and I should have my replacement hard drive today.  Ironically the previous day, I cleaned up my box, placing all my essential files onto my share on the san.  There were a few older backups and software installations that I didn’t save, but I can always redownload the software.  It has been very annoying and counter productive the last two days to use an older underpowered workstation that I found under a desk.  It is frustrating not to have all the tools I normally use frequently not installed.  This situation has made me think harder about experimenting with VDI.  Having a virtual desktop stored on our san would be very helpful.  I could install the tools I typically use and set it up just the way I want to without have to worry about hardware failure.  This has been the first drive fail on a workstation I have used that was no longer usable at all.  I attempted to read the drive with a Knoppix cd and was unsuccessful.  Makes me wish I could have RAID on my workstation similar to the servers I manage.  That way I could avoid having to resetup my work environment.