Ahh the lovely sound of a clicking Disk. . .
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So a user was having some issues with their system not being able to boot the other day.
Boss took it, and asked that she use OWA for email for now, other items can be run though O365 for word, powerpoint etc.
So here I am copying her files from this disk ( i refused to even attempt to boot the drive) and it's clicking.
That lovely "headcrash, headcrash, headcrash clicking noise."
So peaceful in the AM.
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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.
