Technology SUCKS

[Ranchero50]

I just spent the last hour getting the mill to talk to the shop computer. Ended up being as simple as renaming the shop puter to 'shop', the old puters name and adding the shared folders with the same name as the old shared folders and finally making them accessable from another puter. Not sure why I had to do that last bit since they are 'shared' folders...

At any rate we are talking again so I'm going to make some parts and digest some turkey...

Jamie

[Hemmi06]

Hard drives that are not physically broken into pieces still hold all of your information on them. A person of low moral character can get them for free, pull all of the 1s and 0s off of it and by Friday have a credit card with your name on it. Never is it wise to recycle a hard drive that has not been physically damaged. I prefer a couple 1/2 holes drilled through the interior disks.

But you do what you want I'm not the hard drive police.


Oh and this is why they tell you to always have a back up.

Maybe but I was thinking about it after swapping the disc into another 40g HD that each HD is built differently enough that the head won't track the same disc to disc so the data is pretty much gone. My disc had scratches so I tried another and I couldn't even format the disc.

Jamie

If you opened the case of the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) at all the information will never be recovered 99% of the time. To fix a HDD this should be done in a clean room. Whan I say clean room I am talking about one of those rooms you can make microchips in. A small spec of dust can be big enough to get between the HDD heads and platters causing a terminal failure.

It sucks that you lost your pictures and I have been there before myself. If you ever have a HDD with information you really care about fail do not open it up.

I have seen miracles done to HDDs that have fallen 10 stories in a backpack that was attached to a human (Don't ask) .