Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 08, 2005 05:06 AM
If the data was important enough to backup, and all your applications are of the freely available open source variety, and your music is already on your MP3 player, go ahead and smack the hard drive as hard as you can three or four times with a Hammer. This will prevent you from screwing around with it for any longer than necessary. After all, new hard drives are cheap and unreliable ones should be quickly put out of their misery.
Hammer Time Technique
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 08, 2005 05:06 AM#