Ahh the lovely sound of a clicking Disk. . .
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If you put a magnet over it, it will keep the head from doing that.
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And what would it do to the data?
Presumably mess it up... this user has over 80GB of crap in "My Docs..."
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Sounds like that would take care of both issues.
- no more clicking
- no need to mess with the old hard drive (data mysteriously vanished)
I call it a win!
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@art_of_shred said:
Sounds like that would take care of both issues.
- no more clicking
- no need to mess with the old hard drive (data mysteriously vanished)
I call it a win!
I don't know what happened, I stuck the hard drive behind my 12" woofer so it was out of the way and I don't see any data at all.
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I'd leave out the bit about the woofer... that's extraneous information.
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New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
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@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
"Oh problem_user could you please stand against this big metal pole? Perfect... Now catch this!"
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
"Oh problem_user could you please stand against this big metal pole? Perfect... Now catch this!"
Not as satisfying as the customer service bat... but much easier.
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@MattSpeller I'm not sure that was the intended use for the large magnet, but I like how you think. Real problem-solving skills.
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@coliver New?
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@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
I think we should call that the Heisenberg wipe.
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@johnhooks said:
@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
I think we should call that the Heisenberg wipe.
We can't know the value and the location of the bit at the same time?
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@johnhooks said:
@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
I think we should call that the Heisenberg wipe.
We can't know the value and the location of the bit at the same time?
Ah, that makes sense.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@johnhooks said:
@coliver said:
New rule of IT? There are no problems that can't be solved with a sufficiently large magnet?
I think we should call that the Heisenberg wipe.
We can't know the value and the location of the bit at the same time?
That's what I was thinking too haha. From the episode where they put that gigantic electromagnet in the van to wipe the drive in the police station.
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If you are actually looking for a hail mary fix.. SpinRite might fix it..
sadly GRC.com has been getting DDOSed so you might not be able to buy a copy to try it. -
@Dashrender Yeah I doubt the data is that worthwhile...
We're probably just going to let the disk burn out and see what happens.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Dashrender Yeah I doubt the data is that worthwhile...
We're probably just going to let the disk burn out and see what happens.
$80? Ok.
If it's not worth $80, then why do they even have it?
