shermanator 4 #1 March 22, 2008 My mother in law's puter pooped out on them, they got a new one. I took the old one to see if i could salvage my wife's pictures off of it. well, was working fine, took the hd out, and connected it as a slave to my pc.. was running a virus scan, and wow, at the amount detected... anyways, i had my hd, and the slave out of the tower, and on the floor *carpet* oops... so, my wife was sitting at the puter, and we were looking at the virus scan. my socked foot touched the hd, heard a pop *arc* type of sound, and everything shut off. now my hard drive won't boot up at all. when turned on, it just makes kind of a click sound continually, but none of the normal hard drive sounds. bummer! all my videos and pictures, gone CLICK HERE! new blog posted 9/21/08 CSA #720 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kschilk 0 #2 March 23, 2008 Bummer...amazing how much damage a little static charge can do. We keep an external HD on hand and back-up everything, every few weeks...just in case. Flash drives are cheap enough, for a short-term back-up but I wouldn't trust them for long-term storage."T'was ever thus." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
