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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	My first PC had an Octek 386 mainboard (running at an astounding 16MHz, or a blistering 25MHz with the turbo button down) and a lousy 60MB HD (yes, sixty [i]mega[/i]bytes, I said). It lasted quite a while before the hard drive started making some odd grinding and dragging noises on startup. It suffered no data loss, though every now and again, required a thump to get it started up. One day, when there was no response from the hard-drive on power-up, I gave it the usual firm-but-gentle thump and... crunch [i]clangaclangaclangaclangaclangaclanga[/i] [b]PING PING PING PING[/b] clunkclunkclunkclunkclunkclunk* (etc) The drive head had actually been dragging on the surface of the platter (without losing data, oddly) for some time. One day, it simply welded itself to the platter, then ripped the head free of the armature and span it around inside the unit until it broke up completely. The wreckage inside was horrific. Good thing I had my important stuff backed-up on 5.25" floppies! :D ____ Loading...
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