HDD went flying out!

Posted by Chirantha on June 16, 2008, 5:55 a.m.

Well, this isn't the best day of my life but surely it isn't the worse :P

Well today I tried to write some DVD's and found that I was getting a "Power Calibration" error. So I thought I had some kind of problem in the OS so just to be sure I disconnected all the other drives and installed my backup (recovery) drive which had a fresh copy of windows.

I placed it at the bottom of the CD-ROM bay because my motherboard only supports two IDE devices and I had to connect the DVD-Rewriter to it as well.

After doing my testing removed the power cable from the drive and tried to remove the IDE cable but it was like stuck. So I pulled it out harder (In was still inside the CD-ROM bay as I was lazy to unplug the DVD-Rewriter just to remove it). Then BAM! the IDE cable got removed and the drive came flying out the front of the PC break opening the dummy cover (you remove them when you install new DVD/CD drives).

The HDD landed 3 feet away from the PC and it fell like 4 and a half feet to a cement floor. The thing just bounced off the cement floor lol.

But I plugged it again and it still works! It didn't break. I don't think many HDD's are likely to survive such a fall.

My drive is a 7 year old Quantum Fireball 20GB.

Well I guess its safe to say Quantum is like very durable.

:)

Comments

Evilish 17 years, 7 months ago

Yes, very idiot proof

PY 17 years, 7 months ago

Poor thing.

I'm calling the HDD protection agency.

Juju 17 years, 7 months ago

What you don't know is that it didn't actually collide with the cement floor. It quantum teleported itself to the soft dimension of fluffy cushions and squeezy bunny rabbits and then back again. I love Quantum drives.

F1ak3r 17 years, 7 months ago

I know many words, but I have never heard of this "flyng" you speak of? It is a verb, that much is evident. But what does it mean?

Gentleman, if we can discover the truth, then we shall uncover that which we seek above all else…

F1ak3r 17 years, 7 months ago

I know many words, but I have never heard of this "flyng" you speak of? It is a verb, that much is evident. But what does it mean?

Gentlemen, if we can discover the truth, then we shall uncover that which we seek above all else…

F1ak3r 17 years, 7 months ago

^Spot the difference, win a prize!

ESA 17 years, 7 months ago

The only difference is the time that they were posted! At least I think…

sk8m8trix 17 years, 7 months ago

You spelled 'flying' wrong twice because you are a complete and utter dipshit.

F1ak3r 17 years, 7 months ago

@ESA: Nice try, but no.

@sk8: LOL, I'm so insulted. You amuse me.

F1ak3r 17 years, 7 months ago

I see he fixed his mistake. My work here is done.