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Well, I had another hard drive die again. It's always the system hard drive, where the OS is installed. The boot disk sector and the partition tables are corrupted. I tried all of my recovery tools, but that drive is toast.
I took lunch time today to go drive through the local stores. There was nothing for under $119 on the shelves. All I need is a lousy 150 gig hard drive! So, I finally order the hard drive online at Office Depot. Total came to $54.41 for a 250 gig hard drive. Free shipping, wheee!
So, I'm basically dead in the water until I get this delivered, and install the OS. So what should I use this time? Vista 64bit, Vista 32bit, or XP 32bit? I'll like to go Vista 64bit, but I haven't checked if all my essential tools work with it. 
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Having a hard drive die is never a nice thing. It use to be a real chore reinstalling and configuring an OS but I find it isn't a big deal.
I have been using Vista x64 on my home machine for about a year without any problems. It was new hardware at the time so it was all Vista compatible but that shouldn't be such an issue now. I have also been running Vista x64 on my work laptop for several months with only minor problems, only because we currently don't officially support or test for Vista x64 at our company.
I'm not sure if you use any out of the ordinary software but most general utilities and development tools work on Vista x64 so if you have the hardware for it why not. I'm sure you'd have 4GB of RAM but if not then Vista 32-bit is always just as good.
