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There is no need of creating a backup of your HDD until you are planning to play with yours...like dropping it from Empire States Building onto a trampoline or heating it.....

^-- haha (@ post above)

(06-27-2010, 11:24 PM)LuisR14 Wrote: [ -> ]^-- haha (@ post above)

Yeah....I have some jokes in my pocket....:p

(06-27-2010, 06:27 PM)Arpit Wrote: [ -> ]There is no need of creating a backup of your HDD until you are planning to play with yours...like dropping it from Empire States Building onto a trampoline or heating it.....

...or throwing it out the window just to try to get it to work, as i did ... jking

(07-04-2010, 09:38 AM)iPack Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-27-2010, 06:27 PM)Arpit Wrote: [ -> ]There is no need of creating a backup of your HDD until you are planning to play with yours...like dropping it from Empire States Building onto a trampoline or heating it.....

...or throwing it out the window just to try to get it to work, as i did ... jking

My external hdd fell on the floor and it's data (mostly software and some random wii rips) couldn't be read anymore even if connected directly via SATA, and it'd make no sense to pay hundreds for data recovery to get the mundane data off it..

So I just rolled it down a stairway like a slinky some few times (juvenile and dumb, I know) due to frustration. After one night it just started working again, lol. I guess the rw-head reassigned itself. But it started smoking and making a high pitched noise..
Opened it with a torx and the platter was totally messed up. So don't throw your HDD anywhere. I just did it for entertainment since the drive was gone anyways.

THAT is Awesome..... God thanks, That didn't happened to me....

ocean, if i could i'd kill you since i could prob be able to make it fully working again and make an external drive out of it >_>

WOW.....Ocean needs to run for safety....:p

(07-04-2010, 04:49 PM)Daco Wrote: [ -> ]ocean, if i could i'd kill you since i could prob be able to make it fully working again and make an external drive out of it >_>

But it was literally dead. x____x
It would just spin up for 5 seconds and shut down, every time. The r/w head just wouldn't go back to it's original position no matter what & not recognised under linux/windows, couldn't read any data through any probe or interface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kLVCFrpMV0
(it was running in a semi-cleanroom which had purified oxy and 99% sterile air quality so it wasn't madness)

Ha Ha.....It's like a drum beating for March past......