Now, THAT is what I call MESS

[northwind]

I had an incoming external .10 today, they said "we just did a safe removal of the usb device and after that, it won't work".

I power up the drive and i hear scratching sounds. Powered it off immediately and moved it to clean room for inspection.

I open up the drive and see this:

Haven't seen anything quite like this all these years!

[Tawfeek]

looks belong to old bakeshop stove

[Nick_CT]

I had a 7,200 2.5" last week which was in the same state. User had started a backup and left for the night, came back in the morning to a 'clicking sound'. Head crash + hours of running = big mess

[JWCC]

Reminds me of the caption:
"Can we fix it?"
"No, it's ..."

LOL, not posting that image, either!
How the heck they do that? 12 packs a day? Leaving it in a coal-burning power plant? Near a sulfur source? That's some major pollution!

You think that's funny? I've seen one with _sand_ in it. And it oddly enough was trying to spin up. Of course you couldn't get the data off of it... It was a drive from some people near Fort Carson, when they had a major flood around 15 years ago. The guy selling them had them in a big box marked "magnet donors", and I sure got plenty!

[Nick_CT]

This is the worst one I've had in the last few months:

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[Doomer]

Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters?

[lcoughey]

I've got a SCSI drive where I can see down through three glass plates. Technician asked if that kind of damage happened in shipping.

[unknown]

I had a WD scorpio 2.5 last month with completely broken platters into pieces.

[lcoughey]

I had a WD scorpio 2.5 last month with completely broken platters into pieces.

I have a picture of one of those on my website, I believe.

[unknown]

Nice picture. Almost the HDD I had like this one

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[Nick_CT]

Smashing

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters?

Doomer Sir ,
Seriously ,Do You Have a PIC

[Doomer]

Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters?

Doomer Sir ,
Seriously ,Do You Have a PIC

Cannot find it right now, but I've seen it several times
I remember one drive was Quantum

[CK]

How about where platters cut off heads?? All too common on Seagate 2.5" SAS these days...

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[lcoughey]

But, there is good news in all of this. If you download and run SpinRite, you will be able to completely restore and recover all your data from these drives.

[Nick_CT]

But, there is good news in all of this. If you download and run SpinRite, you will be able to completely restore and recover all your data from these drives.

I can't believe you've just let DR's best kept secret out of the bag and into the public domain

[TaskManager]

Long Live Spinrite.

[northwind]

And hddregen too!

[guru]

But, there is good news in all of this. If you download and run SpinRite, you will be able to completely restore and recover all your data from these drives.

[guru]

And the spray called Dataregaine !!!

But, there is good news in all of this. If you download and run SpinRite, you will be able to completely restore and recover all your data from these drives.

I can't believe you've just let DR's best kept secret out of the bag and into the public domain