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On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Billy Holmes wrote: |
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> Christian Parpart wrote: |
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>> However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of |
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>> mine from within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/ |
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>> rac; I were nearly |
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> many moons ago, I had a 300 meg IDE drive that I bought for a |
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> dollar - and this was when drives sold for about a buck a megabyte. |
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> A lady brought in her computer with a broken harddrive. It would |
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> not spin up, but after I accidently dropped it on the table, it |
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> started working. We replaced her HD, and I asked the owner if I |
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> could buy the broken HD for a dollar. |
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> I stuck it in my BBS machine at the time, and it lasted 2 years for |
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> me. It would work great so long as I did not power down the |
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> machine, then I had to tap the harddrive, or bang it with a pen |
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> while it was trying to power up. One day the power went out, and |
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> when it came back on, the HD would not spin up despite my "tender |
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> care" - it had died. I knew that day would come, so I had current |
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> backups. |
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> They just don't make them like they used to :) |
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Probably was suffering from "stiction" (google it) |
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Chad |
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