Your post reminded me of something that happened several years ago.
My sister was in need of a computer, so I loaned her my spari 286
machine. These things were workhorses, and I never had a lick of
trouble out of this thing in the 10 or so years I had it, these
things took a beating, and kept on working.
Well, 3 months after my sister got ahold of it, it quit working. I
couldn't figure out for the life of me why, since of all the machines
I'd loaned her, each and every one got toasted in various ways, and
none of them ever worked for longer than a year. I'd expected this
one to last considerably longer.
Well, after some initial investigations, and some questioning, I
discovered she'd decided the hd needed cleaned.
Why on earth she came to this conclusion I have no idea, it had been
working just fine, but since both her and her husband both smoked, I
guess she figured it needed cleaned to get rid of the smoke.
Well, the upshot of it is that she actually took apart the hard
drive, cleaned it, (claiming it had lots of scratches on it) and put
it back together. After hearing this, I exclaimed.
Aha, that's the problem, those hard drives should only be taken apart
in a clean room, and never in an average house, especially one filled
with smoke particles.
Her response was that the machine worked after she put it back
together, so it had to be something else.
I promptly informed her about how hds worked, and probably what
happened was that initially it worked, until a speck of dust or
smoke, or ash, or something else got in, and crashed the read/write
heads.
She of course didn't believe me, and still claimed my computer was junk.
Needless to say, I've never loaned her another computer, and have
never, never, ever fixed one of her computers ever again.
It's absolutely mind boggling how some people think.
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