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northwind

Post subject: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:30

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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:

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

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Tawfeek

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:36

Joined: October 30th, 2007, 17:58
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Location: Egypt

looks belong to old bakeshop stove

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Nick_CT

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:39

Joined: September 5th, 2010, 12:29
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Location: South Africa

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

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JWCC

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 5:55

Joined: February 13th, 2012, 5:29
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Location: United States

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. :shock:

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!

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Nick_CT

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:22

Joined: September 5th, 2010, 12:29
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Location: South Africa

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

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Doomer

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:44

Joined: September 29th, 2005, 12:02
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Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters? :mrgreen:

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lcoughey

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:51

Joined: February 9th, 2009, 16:13
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Location: Ontario, Canada

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.

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unknown

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:38

Joined: October 21st, 2007, 8:48
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I had a WD scorpio 2.5 last month with completely broken platters into pieces.

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lcoughey

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:01

Joined: February 9th, 2009, 16:13
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Location: Ontario, Canada

unknown wrote:

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.

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unknown

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:06

Joined: October 21st, 2007, 8:48
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Nice picture. Almost the HDD I had like this one

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Nick_CT

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:48

Joined: September 5th, 2010, 12:29
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Location: South Africa

Smashing

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Amarbir[CDR-Labs]

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:01

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Doomer wrote:

Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters? :mrgreen:

Doomer Sir ,
Seriously ,Do You Have a PIC :mrgreen:

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Doomer

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 13:26

Joined: September 29th, 2005, 12:02
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Amarbir wrote:

Doomer wrote:

Anybody seen drives where heads cut off platters? :mrgreen:

Doomer Sir ,
Seriously ,Do You Have a PIC :mrgreen:

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

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Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 13:39

Joined: March 13th, 2005, 12:33
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How about where platters cut off heads?? All too common on Seagate 2.5" SAS these days...

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lcoughey

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 13:55

Joined: February 9th, 2009, 16:13
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Location: Ontario, Canada

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.

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Nick_CT

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 14:15

Joined: September 5th, 2010, 12:29
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Location: South Africa

lcoughey wrote:

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

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TaskManager

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 14:19

Joined: December 12th, 2010, 9:50
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Long Live Spinrite. :lol:

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northwind

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 16:23

Joined: January 28th, 2009, 10:54
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Location: Greece

And hddregen too!

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guru

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 16:26

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
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Location: England

lcoughey wrote:

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.

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guru

Post subject: Re: Now, THAT is what I call MESS

Posted: February 13th, 2012, 16:27

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2782
Location: England

And the spray called Dataregaine !!!

Nick_CT wrote:

lcoughey wrote:

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

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