*sniff* ill miss ya, ya little harddrive ;)

[trav]

Harddrive: Maxtor 2.01 (unknown serial nuber)

I all started two days ago.....

Booted up
"Primary Slave: Maxtor ((((G&8..."
:o
Went into BIOS
Auto Detect Harddrives
reboot
POST Post's fine :)


Has posted fine for a day....BUT!! TODAY :O :O :O

Booted Up
"Primary Slave: (a bunch of garbled stuff)"
Went into BIOS
Autodetect Harddrives
Reboot
"Primary Slave: Eagaptor (serial)" :o !
continue into Windows XP Pro, SP1, boots fine
My Computer
"F"
"F is not accessible"



Now I have a dead 2.01 GB HD :'( *sniff* ill miss ya, ya 'lil' two gig HD!! :'( " ;D

Thats my story :)

[Mark H]

Where are you going to bury the little guy?

Mark H

[query]

Recycle - spring is here, and the platters make resonant wind chimes.

[Igloo]

bury it in the back garden, and put a lil cross above it!

[Wade777]

Hit it and wiggle around the connections a little bit before you throw it away.

[Neon]

I must say that query's suggestion is the best. Just think, you could record the windchimes, make it into a .mp3, and store it on your new drive. Then you will have a reminder of the old disk right on your new disk. Then when your new disk finally croaks, you can repeat the procedure.

Tech Report covered a hard drive dissection today, but I was disappointed in the lack of details.

[44mayg]

Take that hummer apart and remove the magnets. They are quite strong and fun to play with :-)

[Mark H]

Take that hummer apart and remove the magnets. They are quite strong and fun to play with :-)

Plus you can learn alot! ;D

Mark H

[Whizbang]

I must say that query's suggestion is the best. Just think, you could record the windchimes, make it into a .mp3, and store it on your new drive. Then you will have a reminder of the old disk right on your new disk. Then when your new disk finally croaks, you can repeat the procedure.

I suppose that is the hard drive equivalent to cremation and storing the ashes in a jar on the mantle.  I'd go for a trot line weight for catfish.  ::)  

[Nestor]

Don't tell anyone in your neighborhood that it died. When someone comes over, ask them if they'd like the drive for their system. When they give their assent, toss it to them. or fumble it in front of them.

[trav]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Andrew S]

If your an athletic type of person and dont mind the mess, try playing baseball with it, and if you can find all the pieces, glue them to somethign and make a work of art to hang on your wall

[Nestor]

I asked my instructor for a hard drive and he had a dead hard drive that had already been opened and then closed up again- I didn't know it at the time. He came up to me, reached out with the HDD in his hand, then bobbled it. I was quick, I caught it before it hit the ground, but he stood there staring at me with this look on his face, and everyone was kind of snickering. (I'm the new guy)

Man, my heart was POUNDING!

Of course, now that I look back on it, it was great fun- I can't wait untill I can pull a similar joke on someone else.

[Andrew S]

Travis, I know how it feels to lose a close friend like a hard drive, lol.  I recently lost an entire computer.  My cousins computer was serious garbage and wouldnt work, so instead of me trying to fix it for him, i just built one out of my extra parts collection and gave him a full computer.  A fairly decent one too for a freebie

it had  
AMD Athlon 1 GiG
256 and 128 stick of RAM
20 gb WD hard drive ( i think)
8 Mb video card (small for games, but good enough for a freebie)
soundblaster card  
52x cd rom drive
win 98
(win 98 was legal.  it was originally loaded on that pc that was reconstructed and only loaded on that one pc)
not bad for a freebie

So, i didnt think it was too bad of a system for giving it away for free

[trav]

Yeah, andrew, thats a good PC you built there :)