Seagate Hard disk failure (meets marker)

I got bored and opened up a u10 seagate hard drive and colored it with a sharpie the results were quite satisfying

Create my own PC Recovery DVD or partition for fast reinstallation on startup?

Question by JeffreyC: Create my own PC Recovery DVD or partition for fast reinstallation on startup? It takes me about 8 hours to fully reinstall my OS and software with updates to where I can say, “Good, now I’m ready”. I’d like to be able to take all that info and either store it on [...]