I got a phone call from Purolator 3pm this afternoon. They told me there is a package for me to pickup. I know it is my dear Acer TM292LCi. I went home early and picked up the package at the Purolator office in the brick plaza. I was so happy that it is fixed, that is the good news to me. However, when I saw the repairing sheet, it said nothing wrong with my laptop since we test thoroghly with a test drive loaded with bundled recovery software, everything is OK. Well, that lead to the bad news... there is something wrong with my harddrive software-wide. I really don't know what did I do that cause the hardware not working problem. I think I have to reinstall everything to verify what Acer technicians say and then work on fixing the software problem. Since it's so time-consuming just to back/restore/re-install, I decided to buy a new bigger hard drive since my 40GB one seems not big enough and so that I can save some time for backup/restore. After I re-install everything, it looks my laptop is as fresh as new again.
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I think I will have to spend some time on the laptop to install all the software I need on the new harddrive and move data from old hard drive to new one. I also ask Lilian to bring me a 2.5 inches hard driver enclosure so that I can find a room for the old hard drive. Overall, this isn't so bad, at least I know my laptop is good.