Kill a hard drive
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Name: Tool_Fan
Date: December 10, 2003 at 22:48:01 Pacific
Subject: Kill a hard drive
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: P4 2.8c / 1GB DDR400
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Comment: I know this may be illegal, but hypothetically.... Someone has a very noisy hard drive they want to deliberatly cause to fail so they can get a new one under warranty. How could they go about doing it without putting other hardware at risk?
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Response Number 2
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Name: JackG
Date: December 11, 2003 at 01:33:43 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)By the time you pay for shipping a drive back, you would be better off buying a new one. If you did something to short out the electronics on the drive, you might just get it back with fixed electronics and the noise.
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Response Number 3
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Name: jam
Date: December 11, 2003 at 05:17:18 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you have a noisy hard drive that's still under warranty, what's the problem? You don't have to destroy it to get it replaced...IT'S NOISY & that indicates a problem! Contact the manufacturer, get an RMA, & send it back. Did you try the diagnostic software that came with the drive? It will test the drive & generate a report on it's condition...assuming you get a bad report, your a** is covered...print it out, get you RMA, & send it in.
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