The Hard Disk Crash Commiseration Thread

[Egroeg]

Well, one of the hard drives in my old machine finally committed suicide. R.I.P. It was ten years old.
Fortunately, it wasn't the one with the OS on it. Now I get to show my brother what the inside of a hard drive looks like
While replacing it, though, the blasted machine demanded a blood sacrifice to start working again -- I am missing a few chunks of flesh from my knuckles thanks to a badly designed case.
Any other hardware-repair horror stories out there?

 

[Stryper]

let see, i tried hooking up my laptop hard drive to my desktop computer. i went down to the electronics store to get a 2.5in to 3.5 hdd adapter.

after connecting it all, i forgot that i didnt set the jumper on my laptops hard drive.

becuase it was the only hard drive in the laptop, having no jumper setting put it at default. so now i needed a plastic shunt to set the jumper settings.

i took one off of my cd drive and put it on, only now the adapter wouldnt fit on! so i took a risk and shaved the shunt down and it barley fit.

i rescued all my data from the hdd and put everything back to normal.

 

[marduke]

theres some magnets in the HDD that are very powerful! one of my HDD's died (a main one too) so i ripped it apart and found the magnets. and thought i can use these.. lol they are on my wall and im using them as a key holder.. :lol: