Computers - Head crash?
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Topic: Computers - Head crash?
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: Computers - Head crash?
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:19am
| Last night while using my 4 year old laptop I started to hear scratching noises. This morning when I went to use it, it tells me that no media was detected and no OS was detected. I assume my hard drive is now destroyed, and the scratching was the hard drive? |
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Posted By: techietaichi
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:19am
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Ditto. That bad boy is shot. The sound you heard was the actuator arm scratching the platter, I think. Kind of like a record player with no needle. Records? LMAO, fark I'm gettin' too old. ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZWhJCF6Ig"> 
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:26am
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I could get a new hard drive, but the DVD burner in it is also shot (has been for at least a year), plus the keyboard is missing half a dozen keys, the battery doesn't work, I have to use duct tape to get the charging cord to stay in. Maybe it's time for a new one. |
Posted By: techietaichi
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:29am
I'd say.  ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZWhJCF6Ig">
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:30am
Ya think!? ------------- 
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WGP guy2 wrote:Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:33am
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Posted By: Bolt3
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 10:40am
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There seems to be a kitten inside of your labtop. Please save it. ------------- <Removed sig for violation of Clause 4 of the New Sig Rules> |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 12:12pm
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Yeah, sometimes dust builds up on the arm, and it scratches the platter.
4 years old isn't too bad though. Better than replacing your laptop every year. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 1:12pm
 I'ze in ur laptop . . . eatin ur data an poopin' in ur RAM. -------------
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 1:21pm
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I never understood why people find that cat humor funny. ------------- 
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 3:35pm
If you have any dust getting in your drive the platters will be scratched to death before much will accumulate on the arm. If you need anything off the drive, it still is very possible to recover some data. PM me if your interested and I can walk you through it. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 5:43pm
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 5:56pm
| What the hell did you do to the thing? |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 6:16pm
One piece of dust on the platters will crash the heads. Fun fact. ------------- 
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 6:39pm
| Something only 500 um big can crash a head? Interesting. |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 6:45pm
Yeah. Hard drives are crap technology. ------------- 
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 8:33pm
It can, but it wont necessarily. When heads start grinding against the platters or get stuck I usually pop off the lid to let them move freely and get the data off. I cant testify that no dust particles get on the platters while their exposed but the heads seldom crash when I do this, and much less so then when I still had them in their enclosure. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 8:35pm
| I guess you don't just crash planes now. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 8:57pm
Guy I knew crashed his plane last night. Sad, but he's fine. And no, I don't crash planes. Darur, there is some stuff I might want to get off if it's not too much trouble, but nothing irreplaceable. |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 9:02pm
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 9:38pm
Right, "Guy you knew." Just admit it, you crashed the ol' turd prop. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 9:48pm
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6176524 - http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id= 6176524 I was never an airline pilot and I'm not a deputy sheriff. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 9:53pm
Sure. Right. Mmmhmm. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 31 May 2008 at 9:59pm
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lol.
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 5:04pm
| WE GET IT, YOURE AN UNDERCOVER DEPUTYSHERIFFPILOT POSING AS A 17 YEAR OLD. |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 5:11pm
LOL------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 6:35pm
| Not funny. This man is in a world of hurt and near death from what i've been told. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 6:51pm
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Wah.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 7:02pm
disagree |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 7:45pm
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Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 8:39pm
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 02 June 2008 at 2:20am
Thousands of people died in one week from natural disasters in the blink of a freaking eye, and I'm supposed to have utmost compassion for a man who got injured while participating in a recreational hobby. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 02 June 2008 at 12:44pm
No, not at all. No one is expected to have sympathy for someone they don't know. It is, however, basic human decency to not be an ass about it though. -------------
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Posted By: Snake6.
Date Posted: 02 June 2008 at 1:25pm
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human decency? This is WGP we are talking about here... ------------- 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 02 June 2008 at 1:42pm
Human decency is not a reflection upon whom we bestow it upon; it is a reflection upon ourselves. -------------
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