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#15 browney595

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Posted 03 March 2008 - 05:37 PM

jaclaz, on Feb 18 2008, 08:22 PM, said:

You can also try shouting very hard at it, using a magic wand and some spells on it, you can freeze it:

Will try that one next time one of my drives dies

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 03:36 AM

browney595, on Mar 4 2008, 12:37 AM, said:

jaclaz, on Feb 18 2008, 08:22 PM, said:

You can also try shouting very hard at it, using a magic wand and some spells on it, you can freeze it:

Will try that one next time one of my drives dies

Don't think it's easy, you have to know the right words, usually electronics are rather "tough", what helped is some occasions was having a BORG recording of the sentence:

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Resistance is futile!

http://en.wikipedia....tance_is_futile
played VERY loud for a few hours.
(but do not put the loudspeaker TOO near to the dead HD, it's magnet won't do any good to the platters