Hello Travis Well I'm bound to say I'm a little surprised at this. I mean; taking a hard drive to pieces is no small matter. How did she get the drive out of the machine let alone get it to pieces? I think I could get a drive out of a machine now, but only because I've been shown how. But as for taking one to pieces, I wouldn't know where to start.
Lynne On 20 Aug 2011, at 16:33, Travis Siegel wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html _______________________________________________ The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group since the 12th of April 2010, at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html
