Data Recovery ? - Whats the dumbest computer mistake you've made - Data Recovery ?!?
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I'm with Craf on the formatting the hard drive. But it was a bad day all around that day.
I was installing a second hard drive. After a successful physical install (it was racked inside and plugged up), I turned on the pc to see if it would still boot with the primary hard drive. Of course, I didn't have the case cover on.
While booting, I accidently dropped a very small screwdriver into the fan. Luckily, it was one of the "correct", static-free screwdrivers. Unluckily, it was still stronger than the vanes on the fan which now broke and locked up the motor.
Luckily, I grabbed the screwdriver and removed it before any more damage was done. Unluckily, I knocked the main case screw down inside the uncovered pc.
Luckily, the screw missed the buzzing fan. Unluckily, it landed on some wee little metal parts on the mother board.
After the insueing hisses, clicks, flashes, and a small puff of smoke, I saw that it was not irrepairable. It could be fixed. Luckily, a friend of mine that works for a large firm doing computer work stopped at my house. He was in his work van. He had a new mother board, slightly better anyway, and the fan. He helped my put it back together, along with the case cover, and then got it booted again. So, my luck changed!
Then I formatted the primary hard drive.
I was installing a second hard drive. After a successful physical install (it was racked inside and plugged up), I turned on the pc to see if it would still boot with the primary hard drive. Of course, I didn't have the case cover on.
While booting, I accidently dropped a very small screwdriver into the fan. Luckily, it was one of the "correct", static-free screwdrivers. Unluckily, it was still stronger than the vanes on the fan which now broke and locked up the motor.
Luckily, I grabbed the screwdriver and removed it before any more damage was done. Unluckily, I knocked the main case screw down inside the uncovered pc.
Luckily, the screw missed the buzzing fan. Unluckily, it landed on some wee little metal parts on the mother board.
After the insueing hisses, clicks, flashes, and a small puff of smoke, I saw that it was not irrepairable. It could be fixed. Luckily, a friend of mine that works for a large firm doing computer work stopped at my house. He was in his work van. He had a new mother board, slightly better anyway, and the fan. He helped my put it back together, along with the case cover, and then got it booted again. So, my luck changed!
Then I formatted the primary hard drive.
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I'm with Craf on the formatting the hard drive. But it was a bad day all around that day.
I was installing a second hard drive. After a successful physical install (it was racked inside and plugged up), I turned on the pc to see if it would still boot with the primary hard drive. Of course, I didn't have the case cover on.
While booting, I accidently dropped a very small screwdriver into the fan. Luckily, it was one of the "correct", static-free screwdrivers. Unluckily, it was still stronger than the vanes on the fan which now broke and locked up the motor.
Luckily, I grabbed the screwdriver and removed it before any more damage was done. Unluckily, I knocked the main case screw down inside the uncovered pc.
Luckily, the screw missed the buzzing fan. Unluckily, it landed on some wee little metal parts on the mother board.
After the insueing hisses, clicks, flashes, and a small puff of smoke, I saw that it was not irrepairable. It could be fixed. Luckily, a friend of mine that works for a large firm doing computer work stopped at my house. He was in his work van. He had a new mother board, slightly better anyway, and the fan. He helped my put it back together, along with the case cover, and then got it booted again. So, my luck changed!
Then I formatted the primary hard drive.
I was installing a second hard drive. After a successful physical install (it was racked inside and plugged up), I turned on the pc to see if it would still boot with the primary hard drive. Of course, I didn't have the case cover on.
While booting, I accidently dropped a very small screwdriver into the fan. Luckily, it was one of the "correct", static-free screwdrivers. Unluckily, it was still stronger than the vanes on the fan which now broke and locked up the motor.
Luckily, I grabbed the screwdriver and removed it before any more damage was done. Unluckily, I knocked the main case screw down inside the uncovered pc.
Luckily, the screw missed the buzzing fan. Unluckily, it landed on some wee little metal parts on the mother board.
After the insueing hisses, clicks, flashes, and a small puff of smoke, I saw that it was not irrepairable. It could be fixed. Luckily, a friend of mine that works for a large firm doing computer work stopped at my house. He was in his work van. He had a new mother board, slightly better anyway, and the fan. He helped my put it back together, along with the case cover, and then got it booted again. So, my luck changed!
Then I formatted the primary hard drive.
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2 years ago, I attempted to overclock my Pentium II machine. The darn CPU cache balked.
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