X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:52:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [204.13.112.10] (HELO mail1.hometel.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTPS id 973357 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:39:53 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.13.112.10; envelope-from=marknlisa@hometel.com Received: (qmail 32388 invoked by uid 90); 7 Feb 2006 13:54:36 -0000 Received: from mail.hometel.com (HELO webmail.hometel.com) (204.13.112.10) by mail.hometel.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2006 13:54:36 -0000 Received: from 24.241.97.202 (SquirrelMail authenticated user marknlisa); by webmail.hometel.com with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:54:36 -0600 (CST) X-Original-Message-ID: <2285.24.241.97.202.1139320476.squirrel@24.241.97.202> In-Reply-To: References: X-Original-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:54:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: WXWORX From: marknlisa@hometel.com X-Original-To: bjburr@mwheli.com, lml@lancaironline.net User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Bryan, In your hard drive is (in simple terms) a spinning disk impregnated with magnetic media where the data is stored. The data is retrieved via a read/write head that is positioned in response to commands from the CPU. The disk spins very fast; typically 4000 - 8000 RPM. This high speed allows the read/write head on your hard drive to "fly" over the spinning disk on a cushion of air. As you know, air density decreases with altitude. At some point the density decreases such that the air cushion supporting the read/write head is insufficient allowing the head to contact the disk. As you can imagine, at those speeds the likelihood of physical damage to both the disk and head is very high. BTW, this is where the term "hard drive crash" comes from; the head "crashes" into the disk. For most crashes, even if you don't break anything severely enough to cause an immediate failure you'll almost certainly have bits and pieces of metal bouncing around inside the hard drive's case. Enough damage (from either the initial crash, or from the metal bits rattling around) and the disk is trash. In your case I suspect you damaged an area on the disk containing data needed to boot the system, but not the head. By reformatting and reloading all the data you were able to recover. I wouldn't be surprised if you have intermittent problems with this hard drive in the future (due to the debris inside the case), especially if the system is moved frequently. Mark & Lisa Sletten Legacy FG N828LM http://www.legacyfgbuilder.com Posted for : Matt, Why does the hard drive die.