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Hard Drive Stories
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Hard Drive Stories
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Here is where we will post user (you) stories that will hopefully help somebody not travel down the same road as you or maybe help them along another path. You can submit your story via E-Mail with the subject line: Hard Drive Story. Please include your name, address, city, & state. This is for record purposes only. Failure to do so will result in a "no-post." By submitting a story you agree that all information provided is accurate and true. Submissions are accepted on good faith.
Understand that RCCS retains the right to edit/reject/delete any content placed on hard-drives.ryansccs.com.
Please observe the rules below:
1: Language must be kept clean with proper English. 2: (1) web-link may be added to your story and (1) picture, or the combination of the two, but only (1) link. 3: Pictures & Text submitted must be original and not copyrighted material. You will be held responsible for any material submitted. Please keep file sizes under 200kb when emailing. 4: No affiliate links. 5: Keep others identities (business & personal) anonymous. Using your name would be okay, saying "company X" or Jane Doe for others would be acceptable. 6: Understand that your privacy is very important to us. Any data submitted (such as real name, etc.) will not be sold or traded to any third party. Please don't submit any information that may be sensitive such as social security numbers, etc. 7: Typical story should include: introduction, climax, resolution, & conclusion. Please keep to 1,500 words or less (There may be exceptions to word count upon review). 8: Discrimination of any type will not be acceptable. (Ex.: race, sex, nationality, etc.) 9: These rules may be modified at any time without notice at RCCS discretion.
One last thing,. please be respectful to others (this includes the manufacturer/supplier of the hard disk that may have royally irritated you), there are ways of writing negatively in positive manor.
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Computer turns off on it's own and hard drive failing. |
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Submitted: August 3, 2007 Reported by: Ryan Hutzel
I was on a visit to a client's house that was saying that their computer was turning off randomly without warning. In the past this kind of thing would be the cause of a bad power supply or motherboard on the blink. When I arrived, the PC had been running for a while they said. I check over the connections in the back of the PC. All the cables were snug and "appeared" to be in great shape. I then checked the windows system log, to find that there are bad sectors all over the hard drive. I let the client know that it would be advised not to use the system anymore until we transfer the data to a new system or another backup.
I thought all was well, until I happened to look down at the power strip that everything was plugged into. It didn't look like a surge protector, so I immediately recommended purchasing a surge protector. At this time I have already disconnected the tower (computer), and thank goodness as to what happened next. I told my client that I would take a look at the power strip to verify that it is only a power strip. When I reach down and lifted it up to read the underside specifications, the strip started throwing sparks. I dropped the strip, and pulled its plug out of the wall. By now though the breaker has blown and the client is asking if I am okay (she was taken back as much as I was).
Other than saving there house from a fire, the real culprit to the hard drive failing was the power strip shorting. One to many cold shut downs is what did this 1 1/2 year old system in. In the end we did what was best for the strip, we threw it away.
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