@mbatsos
I don't get who your post is addressed to. Anyway the "NOOOOOO!!! SECRET REVEALED !!" was ironical reply about the Magic Wand used for HDD fix (like the Hard Drive Spray). I have the HDD horseshoe, if it counts ...
About the purpose of this forum : maybe was intended to make HDD specialists in contact between them (you should know who the admin is) or B2B instead of (as many would expect
) newbies and people who don't want to spend having advice and/or solutions for free. It doesn't matter.
There are a lot of forums and sites where bullshit flow like a river and other better ones, what I see is that 90% of forum(s) and sites are copy of each other and the answers are mostly the same (and mostly useless, with exceptions). You want an example? As a result of incorrect shutdown, you can't see any printer on Windows. Can't add. Normal fixes won't work and you can't make a reinstall, neither a repair. And you can't run system restore / get a restore point because of damage. The rest is working. But you need to fix it and can't reinstall XP over because it doesn't work or you can't. A customer had this problem, and effectively he said that he has seen tons of sites where there were always the same answers , 99% copy-paste or referral to no more existing sites, or to Microsoft KB... after two days struggling and intervention of other people who gave up saying "backup data, do a complete reinstall of OS and programs and restore data", he called me and I went there, in 2 minutes I fixed the problem with no loss of data, no reinstall. He paid very happily the call and 1 hour (it was really 2 minutes but the minimum is 1 hour) and said "now I get what a specialist is". A real ego boost but this was not magic, I just applied logic.
About sharing, there is a line that must be drawn : until a certain extent and until the solutions are known and spread and are maybe at a google click, some help can be given. Beyond,
NO. At least not for me.
Example : if you ask me how a translator work, I would (if I want to , if I have the time to and if I decide to) maybe answer. The answer can be found elsewhere. But if you have , let's say, a Samsung F1 drive you absolutely want to recover , you don't want to spend a dime, no PC3000 can help you on the matter even if you have one, and ask me how translator work or how to fix it in this specific case,
NO I WON'T ANSWER NEITHER SHARE. Selfish ? Tell it to tax agents and suppliers. If you don't want to send me the drive, then you have to pay me and added value (the time and money I invested on finding the answer) and the possible loss because I give out know-how you can use yourself and eventually "steal" me a market share. Selfish ? No. This is sane business.
There is eventually the option for sane B2B trade : you ask me some know how on a subject you don't know and give me other KH I don't have and need.
In general : If you want generic info, if you trust the net (I don't) go googling at your own time/connection expense and maybe ask for clarification (but bearing in mind no one owe us nothing). Some people take advantage of curiosity and maybe of the idea of setting up a business by selling information , this is another question. On other fields, I have paid and attended courses, some good and some other revealed being a loss of time and a theft of money, but that's life (taught the lesson and never trust them again, and when possible and when people would ask me my opinion, I will tell exactly what I think, supported by real facts).
Here university lessons are free. If you want to attend a Physics or Chemistry or Construction Engineering lesson or course , go, find a seat and listen. QUIETLY. When I was a younger university student I used - when a specific argument interested me - to do this.
Only you can't be examined if you don't pay the university fees and if you don't pass your exams you won't get your degree and you can't tell yourself "engineer" (Yes, we are probably one of the very few countries where your title / degree has legal value. Pros and cons : if you have a degree in, let's say, engineering, you cannot work as engineer (entitled) in Italy until your degree has been officially validated, AFAIK).
Well, that's my statement for today... back to work.
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