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This could potentially be a major issue for me and I was seeking any advice. I have a work laptop that I use and we had recently been given an edict that we are not to use it for personal use any longer. Of course I chose to ignore that and continued to play my online poker at pokerstars.com and when I was checking my fantasy football team on Sunday my computer crashed and as I was trying to do a few little fixes the hard drive dropped from my hand and now this computer is rendered useless. My problem is that if I send the computer to our IS Department for reapirs, isn't all of my poker downloads going to be shown on that or is the broken hard drive not saving that. Bear in mind that I am basically a computer illiterate so any advice would be helpful.
Depends if the hdd can be read or not by your IT department. The information you're worried about is still on the drive.
"major issue" huh? Like not adhering to company policy and working on a machine you don't own?
I'm sure you weren't looking for a sermon but you screwed up and apparently weren't worried before; so why worry now?
Pay the piper...
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A good way to get yourself fired. Finding another job is going to be hard in these tough economic times and harder after other places that you apply for find out your background. I can't see why it's a problem now since it wasn't for you when you decided to disobey the rules.
You bet your poker games are still on there. Chances are they'll find them. If the hard drive doesn't work properly, they may get a professional data recovery service to recover the data if the data is important.
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Not only did you ignore company policy but you damaged the laptop by trying to cover your tracks. Can you say karma?
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction
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I guess by now you get the idea that there isn't much sympathy here for you.
You understate, when you say you are computer illiterate.
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Oh my god! Give the guy a break! So he messed up! He's admitted that! Now he's asking for help! Jeez!
Ok, you say you dropped the hard drive? At what hight??? And why do you think it is rendered useless? You would have to drop a hard drive from a VERY high place to render is completely useless!
I am in the data recovery business and can tell you that there is a very good chance you can get the data you want from the HDD if you can get hold of another laptop!
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Or if you can get hold of an external enclosure for 2.5 inch drives and you have a desktop or another laptop to hook it up to.
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"You would have to drop a hard drive from a VERY high place to render is completely useless!"
Not necessarily. I was on the floor working on a PC one time when I dropped a hard drive. It fell about 4 inches and wouldn't work after that.
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"Not necessarily. I was on the floor working on a PC one time when I dropped a hard drive. It fell about 4 inches and wouldn't work after that."
I agree it can happen! But you woudl need to drop it from some hight to RENDER IT USELESS! To be rendered useless a HDD has to be completely destroyed to be USELESS! I can extract info from pretty much anything except fire damaged drives :)
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is the data still on the drive? absolutely. COULD your IT dep't retrieve it? most likely. Will they? i'd bet not.
unless you had files on your laptop that were a) mission critical and b) not backed up, it's likely that your IT dep't won't bother trying to get it working again. It is not very cost efficient to have somebody tinkering around with a single laptop trying to get it working again. All they care about is having A working laptop, not necessarily getting THIS laptop working.
and i'm guessing that since you ignore company policy and drop laptops, you probably didn't have mission critical documents on your machine.
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