I think I broke it

I think I broke it

Help

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Superglue helps, user

Did you just open a hard drive, you stupid fuck? Yeah, I think you may have broken it.

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just piece it together and warm it up in the microwave.

u can still get ur data off it

It looks fine to me. Put it back into your computer

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Not without a laboratory full of specialized tools and a team of scientists who do data recovery.

you broke it the minute you opened up the drive, retard.

>Back up ultra-rare Pepes
>No longer ultra-rare.

just need some old fat16 format

have you tried turning it off and on again?

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>Not using Amazon Vault policies to lock up your Pepes

just needs to be defragmented

Its impressing how much "tech people" gets their mind blown when you tell'em that there are disk platters made out of glass

>Compacting Files

Ive bent 3.5" HDDs into Tacos without them cracking.
2.5"s break like glass, but 3.5"s?

Is this only possible while they spin?

depends if they're metal or glass
you can get glass platter 3.5" disks

Are they a certain brand that I'm just not seeing?
I literally have hundreds of platters zip-tied together like Christmas garland around my entire workplace...all Metal.

have you tried bending all of them? the glass ones look like metal until they explode into glass shards

No. But now I'm worried...
Ive bent quite a few and I guess I'm just lucky enough to not bend a glass.
Anyway to tell them apart?

i haven't really looked much into it

i suppose there's a chance a bright light could get partially through glass platters

-- oh, and i wouldn't worry about the ones you hung up causing problems, they're pretty strong either way

sure thing man, just get some tape and magnets and you'll be able your waifus back in no time

fucking retard

Well, to be fair only 2.5" drives use glass. 3.5" drives have metal platters inside.

Kinda what happened a friend yesterday.
> "user, my laptop doesnt boot anymore, HEELP ME"
> 5 hours trying to get it fixed with different computers over software
> Give up
> Fuckme.jpg
> Calls data recovery company with good reputation
> Diagnostic stuff costs 250€ in 24/7 service cause it was late already but its important
> He gets a call this morning, shit will work
> Costs 2000€
> LOL.jpg

Oh I forgot, of course *everything* was on there, personal stuff aswell as everything from his own little company, no backups

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Well, then it's probably worth 2000€ to him, isn't it ?
Now he knows that data recovery is insanely expensive, maybe he'll have backups next time.

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Maybe the guy now has an incentive to do a backup every now and then.

I used to replace platters at home, not even in a clean environment, to recover data for drives.

Kek.

>Anyway to tell them apart?
Knock on them with your nail.

Not true, old 2.5" are metal and many new 3.5" are glass.