Help with trashed Seagate 1TB drive, pls? TIA! - Page 2

mrfin · October 1st, 2013, 08:43 AM

Every time i lose a drive its a sudden event. No SMART warnings nothing just dead.

Last one was a samsung that spaffed literally after the warranty expired....

**Greenman** · October 1st, 2013, 05:44 PM

Would you believe it not 9 days after my post my MAXTOR(Seagate) 500GB HDD is starting to play me up BUT I plugged it into the front of my machine and at the moment it is behaving, however I have investigated replacement cables from Ebay for a few quid so that will be my next move should things get worse-fingers crossed it doesn't.
Good advice btw PharaohEgypt

**rlg118** · November 11th, 2013, 03:14 AM

I recently had an HP laptop and a WD 1 TB external drive crap out, both on the same day. I always kept two copies of any backups, one on-board (in a different partition) and one external... guess where the two backups were!

~~bigbobnobody~~ · November 11th, 2013, 04:31 AM

After having read several of the many different possible things to do when
a hard drive is on it's way to St. Peter's gate.......it left me still wondering
what to do when all hope, along with the drives contents are lost. gmcbee
pondered the use of a 9mm, a tire iron or perhaps a propane torch, while
pharoahegypt suggested what we most likely did before considering the
others......to cry like a baby lol. Personally......I find myself having a hard
time just tossing my worn out drives in the trash bin, some how hoping in
the back of my mind maybe, that some day in the distant future, I might
plug it back in, and like magic it'll begin working again. Unfortunately.......
the same as our pet dog that got ran over by the milkman when we were
a kid, that just ain't gonna happen. So.....having finally convinced myself
of the facts of the matter.....tomorrow's the day I take 2 of my dead and
gone external hard drives to the burn barrel. There won't be any mournful
ceremonies for these things, as I've cussed and cried over their dying long
ago. There also won't be any politically correct recycling going on either, as
I will douse both of these S.O.B.'s with diesel fuel, and burn them with almost
as much glee, as the first time I plugged them in. Burning up in those flames,
besides the hard drives themselves, will be the useless hopes of ever getting
what was on them, safe and sound onto another hard drive. Ahhhhhhhh......
I do believe I'm starting to feel better already!

**gmcbee** · November 11th, 2013, 05:30 PM

That's the spirit!

**DTravel** · November 12th, 2013, 03:07 AM

Bigbobnobody, rather than burning them take them to an electronics recycler. Circuit boards, including those in hard drives, contain heavy metals that most first world countries classify as toxic waste. So spreading them around the neighborhood via smoke probably isn't the greatest idea.

~~bigbobnobody~~ · November 14th, 2013, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTravel

Bigbobnobody, rather than burning them take them to an electronics recycler. Circuit boards, including those in hard drives, contain heavy metals that most first world countries classify as toxic waste. So spreading them around the neighborhood via smoke probably isn't the greatest idea.

Didn't appear to be any heavy metals in the hard drives that I burned up
DT. Mostly looked to be plastic and tin.

**DTravel** · November 15th, 2013, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigbobnobody

Didn't appear to be any heavy metals in the hard drives that I burned up
DT. Mostly looked to be plastic and tin.

Gold is a conductor that is often used in electronics. Its also a heavy metal and is valuable enough that if you find the right place they will pay you for it.

~~bigbobnobody~~ · November 15th, 2013, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTravel

Gold is a conductor that is often used in electronics. Its also a heavy metal and is valuable enough that if you find the right place they will pay you for it.

Only gold I ever considered to be "toxic waste", was in the ring on my
ex-wife's finger! lol
Trust me......wasn't enough gold in those two hard drives, for a dentist
to put a filling in a flea's tooth! But......I promise ya......next hard drive
of mine that goes out, I'll letcha know and I'll give you a nice discount on it.
Till then, I got a few aerosol cans I need to spray, because I could use a little global
warming over in my chilly neck of the woods.

**buttsie** · November 15th, 2013, 06:20 AM

If you do your due diligence about old computers and whose buyng the precious metals you'll find all too often they pay nothing or may charge to pick them up from your doorstep.

On one forum a guy asked the question about 8 computers he had just picked up

Dissect and extract the precious metals?

Everyone said spare parts even an ex-worker who worked for a firm who broke up old PC boards said we pay nothing because business is the real driver of this industry.We take their dead or redundant PCs and save them money.

Apparently this whole industry kicked off big time around the 2008 financial recession

Unless you know someone or some business who pays the metals angle is a time waster

Spare parts on the otherhand has ahuge market given many dont wish to upgrade their old clunker of a PC...some parts might be as rare as gold if sold on ebay etc

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rlg118 Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Land o' Lake-Effect Posts: 5,348 Thanks: 5,911 Thanked 113,475 Times in 5,360 Posts	I recently had an HP laptop and a WD 1 TB external drive crap out, both on the same day. I always kept two copies of any backups, one on-board (in a different partition) and one external... guess where the two backups were! __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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DTravel Lean Mean Screencap Machine Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Better you don't know. Posts: 23,804 Thanks: 10,480 Thanked 207,295 Times in 23,713 Posts	Bigbobnobody, rather than burning them take them to an electronics recycler. Circuit boards, including those in hard drives, contain heavy metals that most first world countries classify as toxic waste. So spreading them around the neighborhood via smoke probably isn't the greatest idea. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I rage and weep for my country. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I can reup screencaps, other material might have been lost.

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October 1st, 2013, 08:43 AM	#11
mrfin Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: hovel + Posts: 368 Thanks: 13,746 Thanked 6,790 Times in 352 Posts	Every time i lose a drive its a sudden event. No SMART warnings nothing just dead. Last one was a samsung that spaffed literally after the warranty expired....

November 11th, 2013, 04:31 AM	#14
~~bigbobnobody~~ Banned! Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: not here Posts: 3,018 Thanks: 4,467 Thanked 94,236 Times in 3,111 Posts	After having read several of the many different possible things to do when a hard drive is on it's way to St. Peter's gate.......it left me still wondering what to do when all hope, along with the drives contents are lost. gmcbee pondered the use of a 9mm, a tire iron or perhaps a propane torch, while pharoahegypt suggested what we most likely did before considering the others......to cry like a baby lol. Personally......I find myself having a hard time just tossing my worn out drives in the trash bin, some how hoping in the back of my mind maybe, that some day in the distant future, I might plug it back in, and like magic it'll begin working again. Unfortunately....... the same as our pet dog that got ran over by the milkman when we were a kid, that just ain't gonna happen. So.....having finally convinced myself of the facts of the matter.....tomorrow's the day I take 2 of my dead and gone external hard drives to the burn barrel. There won't be any mournful ceremonies for these things, as I've cussed and cried over their dying long ago. There also won't be any politically correct recycling going on either, as I will douse both of these S.O.B.'s with diesel fuel, and burn them with almost as much glee, as the first time I plugged them in. Burning up in those flames, besides the hard drives themselves, will be the useless hopes of ever getting what was on them, safe and sound onto another hard drive. Ahhhhhhhh...... I do believe I'm starting to feel better already!

November 11th, 2013, 05:30 PM	#15
gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	That's the spirit!

November 15th, 2013, 06:20 AM	#20
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,293 Times in 12,746 Posts	If you do your due diligence about old computers and whose buyng the precious metals you'll find all too often they pay nothing or may charge to pick them up from your doorstep. On one forum a guy asked the question about 8 computers he had just picked up Dissect and extract the precious metals? Everyone said spare parts even an ex-worker who worked for a firm who broke up old PC boards said we pay nothing because business is the real driver of this industry.We take their dead or redundant PCs and save them money. Apparently this whole industry kicked off big time around the 2008 financial recession Unless you know someone or some business who pays the metals angle is a time waster Spare parts on the otherhand has ahuge market given many dont wish to upgrade their old clunker of a PC...some parts might be as rare as gold if sold on ebay etc