"pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good."
Pays who? $1000.00 plus to have your hard drive recovered?
I know it's hard to put a price on pictures but a good backup goes a long way toward preventing total disasters.
$129.00 for a 500 Gig one touch backup solution is a better option.
10 hard drive disasters
Summary
Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company.
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Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company that has released a list of the most remarkable cases of data loss witnessed this year.
One customer left a banana on top of his hard drive, which then rotted and seeped through into the device. The circuits were ruined and the drive failed to work.
The banana was also ruined.
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Another customer, failing to read the warning signs, managed to reformat his hard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he realized there was some valuable information he needed.Another customer decided his broken hard drive could be packaged and sent to the company in a pair of dirty socks. The data recovery company--OnTrack--said the smelly clothing failed to provide the necessary protection during shipping, which resulted in more damage to the drive.
British comedian Dom Joly, presenter of Trigger Happy TV, thought the joke was on him when he dropped his laptop, damaging a hard drive containing 5,000 photos, 6,000 songs, a book he was writing and all of his newspaper columns.
And a university professor appeared not-so-clever when he heard a squeaking noise from the drive of his new desktop and decided to open the case and spray in some WD-40. Although successful in stopping the drive from squeaking, this was largely because he had also stopped the drive from working.
Employees of a global telecommunications company had a tall tale to tell their bosses after they dropped a laptop computer while working from a helicopter in Monaco.
Also, OnTrack says it happens every year, but people continue to leave computers and hard drives in the path of moving vehicles. This year alone, the company recovered data from a laptop that was run over by a people-carrier at the airport, and several external hard drives stuffed in a backpack that was backed over by a truck.
After returning from the airport from his dream diving holiday in Barbados, one man discovered he couldn't access any of the snorkeling photos he took on his new 'waterproof' digital camera. It seems the camera wasn't as waterproof as advertised.
OnTrack claims it rescued the data in all cases. Jim Reinert, senior director of software and services for the company, said it pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good.
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stealthram23rd Jul 2008 -
RS923rd Jul 2008 -
RE: 10 hard drive disasters
I think Oprah, The Tonight Show, CNN, The Late Show
It's all about advertising, what would be interesting is just one story from you, once, about how each of your little snippets are about paid endorsements of each of the companies or products featured.
My wife will be watching, "The American Idol" and after 3 minutes they break for 10 minutes of commercials. She comments about they just showed a commercial to which I reply, "That's what pays for the show." It's all about the advertising, it's all about the income, I doubt you would give a rip about idiots dropping laptops from helicopters(there ought to be a law) if you did not get numeration because it was part of an ad, right?
Anyway this is not a rant against advertising, just a little rant on how people worship the celebrities with the shows like Oprah's that, while they may have nice "warm fuzzy stuff" it is all about the money.
zdnetjunky25th Jul 2008 -
RE: 10 hard drive disasters
"...did not get numeration..."
Did you mean remuneration?
Numeration is the act of counting or numbering things.
Remuneration is payment for services rendered.
Justthisguy25th Jul 2008 -
RE: 10 hard drive disasters
Useful ideas.The dont's are suggested indirectly.
balasubramanian.g26th Jul 2008 -
RE: 10 hard drive disasters
Useful hints.But one should draw lessonsbalasubramanian.g26th Jul 2008
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