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Originally Posted by piper28
Ok, it's been a while, but the idea of whacking hard drives isn't completely out of line. There was a time period when drives would suffer from stiction, and it was actually an accepted practice to smack the drive hoping to get it to spin up properly. Hasn't really been a problem since the early 90s, but there definitely was a time when smacking the hard drive was a legit practice.
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On that old Toshiba, the hard drive was encased in a kind of steel box and really easy to pop out. I was so frustrated and I remember someone said, "you could always whack it -- couldn't hurt" Ha! Imagine my surprise!
