[Daedalus]

:cuss: lose all of my my data will you? Bad sectors? Not spinning up?
Dissatisfied with penetration of 22s I decided a 12 gauge slug was needed for a thorough high velocity format. What are your favorite "revenge" targets?

[cslinger]

A little tid bit of info. If your HD goes down and you need to get it back up for a short amount of time to pull info off, put it in the freezer for an hour or so.

Don't have a clue why this works but I have used this trick on many dead drives and have brought them back into the light for at least a temporary reprieve. Usually long enough to get any info needed.

[Kharn]

Sweet, through-and-through. Now next time one fails, you gotta do the .308 vs .223 and .223 vs 7.62x39 tests.

Kharn

[SLOdraw]

Since we Americans measure using standard units., I like to test for "metric compatibility." That is, see how compatible it is with 9mm, 7.62 x 39mm, etc.:p

[gun-fucious]

ya hardly nicked the platters

the NSA could still get yer data back off that disk

next time tri punch it with some SLAP rounds

:evil:

[Mike Irwin]

I refreshed the screen on an old monitor I owend with a .357 Mag.

Fairly fun.

I think next time I try it, I may do it while it's plugged in and turned on...

The ever-ongoing quest for knowledge... :)

[Carlos Cabeza]

Gunfucious said "You Missed" ! :D You only hit the Read/ Write mechanism.
Revenge eh, The time the car wouldn't start and...........................:what: J/K

[blue86buick]

he he he...i've got a HDD that's been in my car for about a month now, that I found (with only two holes in it) at the range. I added a few more ventilation holes with my .22LR, and it's nice and cool now! No more overheating. :D

I'll post a picture when I get home.

[Bowlcut]

Next TN Mafia shooting Darrin and I will remember to bring various computer parts to shoot at if people want :D. We have probaly 80 dead fujistu hard drives at work that cant be warrentied at all....stupid fujistu and compaq

[veloce851]

Nice shot :)

although a few techtips..
Don't have a clue why this works but I have used this trick on many dead drives and have brought them back into the light for at least a temporary reprieve. Usually long enough to get any info needed.
In reference to the freezer trick.. the reason it typically works is that the HDD simply overheated.

Word of caution if you leave it in there for a period of time and then bring it out. keep in mind condensation will debunk your efforts.


If you ever have a HDD "die" first thing to do is pull it out and cool it down.. leave it for a few hours in a cool spot. You don't even need to use the fridge or freezer. (set it on an A/C vent ) Then try it as a slave drive.. if it isn't even reccognized you can take it and whop it on a flat surface once and not too hard to try and dislodge stuck heads.
If its beyond physical then check out Spinrite from www.grc.com
If all that fails.. then your sol :( and take it as a hard lesson to back up anything you truly value. FWIW

[Dave Markowitz]

http://www.building-tux.com/images/fuji1.jpg

.30 Carbine Ball: My favorite PC repair tool. :evil:

[Standing Wolf]

The top of the line Macintosh I bought last September included a defective I.B.M. hard drive and defective Pioneer CD reader-writer. If I hadn't had to send the wretched junk back to Apple...

[Sven]

Note to self: hard drives will NOT suffice for improvised trauma plates.

[Darrin]

Since I'm the phone guy at work, I love taking old phones out to the range and tossing some 00 buck at 'em. :D

We've got an old tape backup that's scheduled for the next range visit.

Previous shooters at the range have left behind printers, fax machines and PC towers that we volunteered to 'finish off.' :evil:

As soon as my insurance claim goes through, I've got some $3500 digital cards from my phone system I want to shoot. (Damaged by lightening so I can't use them anymore.) Those will be my most expensive targets!

Now that I think about it, I have some old smaller phone systems that would do well at the range...... :evil: Maybe I will go shooting this weekend.

[lee n. field]

Is that Fujitsu a 10GB, by any chance? Those were _notorious_ for dying (as in almost all of them accompanied by fingerpointing by Fujitsu and a company making chips for the controller board).

[kenehsr]

Had an old car radio that didnt work. Fixed it up real nice with an .50 cal muzzle loader. I live on a dead end where everyone likes to shoot off fireworks on the fourth of July. We shot the muzzle loader in the back yard. When it went off everybody on the street said :what: . There wasn't much left of the radio. There wasn't much left of the butt either when my dad came back there and saw what we had done:cuss: . Mwithers72 ought to remember that. He He He

[mwithers72]

yup I remember that one very well. :evil: good old 50 cal black powder rifle. ripped the back out of that radio. :D

[M67]

Spent a nice afternoon at the range today, and with the virus scare of the last few days, I decided to check if my favourite anti-virus tool still works. Placed some disks at the 25 meter line and tested. The most impressive was an edgewise hit with the .44. Some pieces landed several meters away. :D

The disk(s) in the picture, there may be parts from more than one, have of course taken multiple hits.

[Dave Markowitz]

Is that Fujitsu a 10GB, by any chance? Those were _notorious_ for dying (as in almost all of them accompanied by fingerpointing by Fujitsu and a company making chips for the controller board).

Yup, it's a Fuji. Their IDE drives were utter garbage. (Which kinda surprised me because their SONET gear rocks.)