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[CrazyTeeka]

1st time seeing a drive that's in such a bad condition that "Format Unit" and "Clear G-List" no longer work.

[CrazyTeeka]

The amazing refridgerator trick, shame it never works.

fooffygutss's post...

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[Joep]

The amazing refridgerator trick, shame it never works.

fooffygutss's post...

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He replied to you. You're obsessed

"For example, if the head tower positioner bearings become “wobbly” — game over."

Does this make sense? it's not my expertise but it's the first time I hear it ..

[CrazyTeeka]

I'm guessing he means where the HSA pivots from.

[Joep]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking too. He's good at inventing his own terms for everything.

[fzabkar]

S.G. obviously has no practical knowledge of the inner workings of hard drives. I'm only an observer, but I at least understand that headstack replacement is the solution in 99% of cases where there is difficulty in reading the data (aside from media damage or SA corruption). Sadly, he is trying to extrapolate what he learned 30 years ago to the present day.

Steve, those old heads were based on a single coil that was responsible for both reading and writing. They were soon replaced by magnetoresistive (MR) heads. These contain separate read and write elements. The failure mode of MR heads is completely different, as I explained to you in a thread which one of your stooges subsequently deleted.

[CrazyTeeka]

SpinRite's world class magic fails to fix an invalid B-Tree node size?

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[CrazyTeeka]

Looks like data loss to me...

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[lcoughey]

I can't find the post for that.

[CrazyTeeka]

I can't find the post for that.

https://forums.grc.com/threads/cant-boo ... post-12047