when good hard drives go bad

[amerikat]

Here's a pic of the innards of my 40gig IBM drive that crashed last year. The heads crashed on the platters and scratched the magnetic surface off, right down to the plastic.

[kayleybeth]

1. Ouch

How'd that happen?

[amerikat]

2. i'm not sure.....it started making funny noises.....and then it crashed

I got almost all of the data from it. I now have two backup drives.

[nini]

3. not good. sucks when you can't even recover anything.

bummer.

[amerikat]

6. recovered all most all of it

I used ontrack software.

[nini]

7. good.. I thought it was physically damaged beyond help

whew

[aquart]

8. How?

I had a head crash once. It screamed. SCREAMED.

Horrible.

[Geo55]

4. hard drives go bad

Wow.....never saw one mill the coating off the disk !...lol

[Guy Fawkes]

5. Save the disks! They're so smooth, they create a vacuum when you put them

together.

[KG]

9. heh. is that a roach-clip posing as a hemostat in the background?

:smoke:

[amerikat]

10. The hard drive was smokin.....not me

[DEMVET-USMC]

11. Seagate makes the best in my opinion,it`s been in my computer for 6 years

and never a single scan error reported. ...Oscar