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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


tommyrot - May 08, 2008 8:08:46 am PDT #6114 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This is kinda' cool: Shuttle Columbia's hard drive data recovered from crash site

Edwards said the circuit board on the bottom of the drive was "burned almost beyond recognition" and that all of its components had fallen off. Every piece of plastic on the model ST9385AG hard drive melted, he noted, and all the electronic chips inside had burned and come loose.

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Before recovery could begin, a great deal of dirt and other debris had to be cleaned from the storage device. A rubber seal at the top of the hard drive was completely burned off enabling dirt and charred elements to enter the casing. Everything but the drive's platters were virtually unusable, remarked Edwards

"The heads were bent and they were touching where they shouldn't have, so we had to carefully cut and bend metal away from the platters to get them out without causing more damage," said Edwards.

Once cleaned, the platters were placed into a spare drive and carefully aligned with a new motor. Because the original circuit board was destroyed, Kroll had to use trial and error to determine which firmware was needed for the device.

Although damage to the drive worsened once the team got it up and running, the data recovery specialists retrieved 99% of the drive's DOS-formatted contents. "It was only a couple hundred megabytes of data, which isn't much by today's terms, but the data [the drive] contained was very valuable," noted Edwards.

eta: Check out the slideshow of the damaged drive....


sumi - May 08, 2008 12:44:44 pm PDT #6115 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Can you move downloaded tv shows from itunes on one computer to itunes on another computer - as datafiles?

I would love to be able to move them via my nano but I can't synch my nano on my home computer because my dial-up is too slow to allow me to download an intunes recent enough to be compatible with my nano.


§ ita § - May 08, 2008 1:11:44 pm PDT #6116 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sumi, if you can use the nano as a drive and copy the file over you can reimport it into iTunes--you just have to have the second machine authorised for the same account, I think.


-t - May 08, 2008 4:20:26 pm PDT #6117 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Paper shredders are tech, right?

I bought a Black & Decker Identity Theft Buster today. Brought it home, actually read the instructions, set it up, and started shredding. Fine.

I can't pull out the "pull out bin" to empty it. This is not a symptom listed under "Troubleshooting".

Customer service is closed until tomorrow so I thought I would try a Hail Mary in here. Anybody have any idea what stupid thing I have done and/or how I can fix it?


DXMachina - May 08, 2008 4:28:15 pm PDT #6118 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Maybe it's a disposable shredder?


dcp - May 08, 2008 4:31:00 pm PDT #6119 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

The upper photo seems to show a latch on the front, underneath the logo. Is the top supposed to tip back? Or come off entirely?


-t - May 08, 2008 4:39:06 pm PDT #6120 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Maybe it's a disposable shredder?

If it is I paid way too much for it.

No latch, dcp. That's an image of another model at the top of the page. The top doesn't do anything, the bin is just supposed to pull out, but it's stuck.


DCJensen - May 08, 2008 5:56:26 pm PDT #6121 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

overfilled?


Laga - May 08, 2008 6:03:22 pm PDT #6122 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

overfilled?

that's what did in that last two paper shredders we had at work.


DCJensen - May 08, 2008 6:45:52 pm PDT #6123 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

sometimes you can tamp down the contents by shaking and bumping....