To Laugh or Cry?

pumaz · 26 Jul 2006 at 19:30

You really should have let DBAN run it's course.

But it does sound as though your HD is faulty and the only right thing to do is withdraw the auction. Then take HD and a large hammer out in the garden and vent your frustration!!

But seriously dude why would you spend that much time collecting all that pron just to destroy it? It's not like HD's are worth out theses days :confused:

maranello168 · 26 Jul 2006 at 20:40

Foehammer2003 said:
That would be morally wrong, you just cant trash that much pron when its an ex, you have to at least make some money out of it

lmfao

guess who the winning bidder is? :eek:

Mr Mister · 26 Jul 2006 at 21:24

The seller ended this listing early because the item was lost or broken.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

maranello168 · 26 Jul 2006 at 21:51

muahahahahahhahaa muahahahahahahahhahahahahaaahaha

i made him an offer he couldn't refuse

Mr Jones · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:02

maranello168, you "ham sup lo"(Pervert)!!!

You didn't, did you?

Edit: My cantonese is rubbish. I speak "Orange".

maranello168 · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:05

Dr Jones said:
maranello168, you "hup sup lo"(Pervert)!!!

You didn't, did you?

haha, 'ham sup lo', lmfao, nah i didn't i only placed a bid on his auction, but he ended it

TheVoice · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:35

Fourth post in, I recommended secure delete software. Would have easily been a lot less complicated (assuming it'd work, that is).

GoldenGlory · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:50

Okay guys, you deserve an update.

After running the MaxBlast (or whatever its called) for about 5 hours, doing the Zero Fill, the drive is still intact. How this is the case, I simply do not know. Sorry to say it but all your suggestions seemingly would have had no success in fixing this drive. It's ***ked.

My anger is further increased by the following fact(s):

I have spent 2 days trying to rescue a drive with a resale value of ~£28 (had it even worked).
I have destroyed my 2 month old NEC DVDRW by shorting it (I think...).
I have lost the use of my main PC for 2 days whilst trying to fix it = no work done.
I have seemingly corrupted my boot drive, since windows no longer loads (lost work & files?)

Lessons Learned.
Hard drives are sensitive, unpredictable chunks of ***t.
Windows is the worst peice of software to ever grace computers.
If a HDD seems broke, just give up. It's really not worth it.

It's been a ride for me, you may have read my thread about buying a Macbook Pro. This experience has certainly added weight to that decision. Hope it's been entertaining for you, I now look back and laugh.
Are computers for me? I'm in my 2nd year of Computer Science degree. I'm going for an interview tomorrow morning for an 8 week contract for IT consultancy in Manchester. I now hate computers.

Oh, and the drive? Chucked it on the floor. Will find a torx tool and open her up, rip out the carcass.

- GoldenGlory

basmic · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:39

GoldenGlory said:
<snip>

Lesson Learned:
Maxtor hard drives are unpredictable chunks of ***t.

Fixed your typo for you.

Foehammer2003 · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:43

That'll soon pass... without the pitfalls you couldn't truly appreciate the highs and anyway if PC's were easy you would get bored too easily.

Seems that your drive was gone before you started mate, so without realising it you had lost before the battle started, lesson learnt i guess. Just sorry couldn't offer a resolution that worked, it sure was a strange issue!

DarkShadow · 27 Jul 2006 at 00:56

Best. Thread. EVER :cool:

SkeeterUK · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:22

http://www.shareup.com/Data_Destroyer-download-23030.html

Perhaps?

Oh and yeah, this is a funny as, thread.

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Oh u wrecked the drive ah well.

fonzee · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:49

love this thread... best ever in this section!!

LOL @ the ebay questions n all

edit: awww chucked on the floor... still those HD plates still have nekkid pixors of your ex on them... nuke tbh

Fantom · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:57

GoldenGlory said:
I'm never downloading porn again.

Yeah

I give it a week

Edit: ooh and have you tried mustard?

Zefan · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:58

GoldenGlory said:
I'm never downloading porn again.

You mean you downloaded the pictures of your girlfriend? She sounds nice...

maranello168 · 27 Jul 2006 at 02:22

Zefan said:
You mean you downloaded the pictures of your girlfriend? She sounds nice...

his girlfriends a porn star :eek:

Hxc · 27 Jul 2006 at 09:44

Hahhahhah! Awesome thread!

And you have learnt your lesson, Maxtor drives are awful when out of warrenty

deadeyedic30 · 27 Jul 2006 at 13:16

Did you and the Ex part on good terms ? How fit was she, vital statistics, gives us some details !!

You can't put us through all that and not tell us what she looked like.

Out of curiousity were the pictures all right protected, not that it should have made a difference to the various programs used to delete them. :confused:

If this was mentioned i missed it due to partial blindness from all the tears of laughter. :rolleyes:

Personally what i would have done if i was having that many disc errors, is just have that drive connected to the mobo, reinstall windows fixing any disc errors, install Partition Magic delete any other partitions so their is only one, change it to logical, then reconnect the other hard drives, reinstalling windows if necessary then using something like the Eraser program to zero fill the hard drive, after deleting all the windows file first.

Foehammer2003 · 27 Jul 2006 at 13:37

deadeyedic30 said:
Did you and the Ex part on good terms ? How fit was she, vital statistics, gives us some details !! You can't put us through all that and not tell us what she looked like.
Out of curiousity were the pictures all right protected, not that it should have made a difference to the various programs used to delete them.

If this was mentioned i missed it due to partial blindness from all the tears of laughter.
Personally what i would have done if i was having that many disc errors, is just have that drive connected to the mobo, reinstall windows fixing any disc errors, install Partition Magic delete any other partitions so their is only one, change it to logical, then reconnect the other hard drives, reinstalling windows if necessary then using something like the Eraser program to zero fill the hard drive, after deleting all the windows file first.

lol, although i think ripping out the carcass which he mentioned is another sure fire way. My vote is still on the Swedish Goat snuff films

Mr Mister · 27 Jul 2006 at 13:41

You should take the top off the drive and then cover it with some tight cling film. Then start it up and bend the disc/head thingy with a magnet and watch it destroy the disc :cool: