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OMFG i just found a 30GB hard drive for free..... story inside....

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element2k5

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OK so at my school we have a recycling center where the computer management group throws out "bad" parts.... so i was rumaging thru the piles today when i came across a maxtor drive that was marked as dead..... so disregarding this warning i took it back to my room and plugged it into my rig.... i go thru the bios to detect new ide devices and it says its a 30GB hard drive!!!!! so i was like score..... a free 30gb hard disk... so i am running scan disk right now.... ill update later


P.S.
i was also wondering if i could recover any deleted files from it... it was originally used as a ghost drive and i wanted to find out what kinda stuff was on the drive.... but it does kinda work... and its also still under warranty... i dont know if i can get it replaced tho... cause i think its a dell oem drive.... any advice would be greatly appreciated as well as bumps!!!!!!


*update*
gave up on win2k update... but fdisking now

*udate*
RMA aquired!!!!!!
 
I thought your title said

<< "OMFG i just made one of the best friends of my life!!!!!!!" >>



😀
 
at first i thought your thread title read "one of the best friends of my life" then i read your post about a hard drive and almost laughed my ass off at what a loser you were.

Then I reread the title and thought about what a moron I am.

Nice find. 🙂
 


<< I thought your title said

<< "OMFG i just made one of the best friends of my life!!!!!!!" >>



😀 >>



d00d that's what I thought at first too!! 😱

I heard Norton had a program for recovering data from a drive after it's been formatted or something. There are programs that cost about $20 that do this but the names have escaped my mind for now 😱 BTW... Lucky bastard, I just paid $45 for mine 😉
 
That's just the way it reads I guess! I thought the same thing, then after reading was wondering if the HD was his new best friend or what??!
 


<< I thought your title said

<< "OMFG i just made one of the best friends of my life!!!!!!!" >>



😀 >>



Ha, yeah that's what i thought you said at first too... 🙂

 


<< I read it as friends also. It was sorta like that thread in hot deals the other day

Hot deal on a 10 inch black clock. >>


ROTFLMAO!!!
 
well... i am just gonna format the thing.... its kinda slow... it might be a 5400rpm drive but it kinda works.... its just really slow but its a maxtor...
 
Get one of those hard drive testing programs and check the life of it before you put any data. The progam should be able to give a good ideal on any damage
 
well i saw a guy literally throw the drive into one of the bins.... and when i fdisk it... it gets to 4% when its testing drive integrity...
 
it probably has some bad sectors, it could take hours to find them all and mark them, but it will probably work, for a while
that is probably why it was marked "bad" and thrown away 😀

don't worry, free = good 😉
 
it wasnt marked "bad" it was marked "dead"... do u think i can get it replaced by maxtor? i think its still under warranty..... they have a 3 year warranty dont they?
 
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