Hopefully you've never experienced a harddrive fail on you. But, if you have, you'll understand the great lengths we go thru to fix it. I mean, that harddrive has our pictures, our music, our work, our programs and games. To lose one is a traumatic experience. You spend a week trying to revive it, maybe put it in the freezer and hope that it runs long enough for you to backup your data. Or maybe you leave it alone, hoping that it decides to wake up, almost saying, "Hey, I missed you too." Perhaps you get all your geek-nerd friends to help diagnose the cause, because, i mean you took SUCH great care of it by not kicking it when it crashed on you before and losing your important document, maybe dusting it once in awhile. And you pray to your respective God(s) [or the computer gods, whomever they may be] hoping it fixes itself.

Whatever the scenerio, anyone that has worked with a computer has had it do something irratic, and left you devastated. If petting a goat brought it back to normal, you know you would do it. And you would do it EVERYTIME from there-on.

My 500gig hard disk (which I had had for two years) one day stopped working, I tried everything, I let it rest for a week, I put it in the fridge for a whole day, I slapped it, I blew on it, I shook it, I even spoke softly to it (when my wife wasn't looking) and still nothing.

I faced the sad reality in the end, my movies, artwork and software are all gone, I kept the hard disk with my tech stuff for another 2 and a half years. However Allah sent me an angel in the form of my IT engineer brother in law who somehow retrieved all the information before throwing the drive away for good.

and they lived happily ever after

OH YOU'RE SO LUCKY!

whenever something that bad happens to me, I try not to think of the things i lost because then, its more painful. if i dont remember, its like eh...

one day i'll have my techie

I had one hard drive fail on me. I ended up having to retrieve the data by hooking up the the drive to my other computer with ribbon cables and using a data retrieval program to repair and transfer what was salvageable and wipe the drive so I could reinstall my os. I think I used spin right that time. worked like a charm.