12-22-2009, 09:56 AM
I agree, I've never seen elevation have an impact on a hard drive. Think about all the hundreds of thousands of people who fly...daily...depending on their laptops for business needs; I'd think we would have heard some kind of warning by now.
I build computers on the side as a hobby, in fact I received a mother board just yesterday for the space age desktop I'm building for myself. The reason for the rebuild is that my hard drive crashed. It came back up long enough for me to rip all the needed files to DVD so in that aspect I was fortunate; I highly recommend you make a backup ASAP. It sounds as though your computer got jostled during your trip and screwed up the disc's that nj593 described. While the drive is back up now, its not a good sign as the the discs in the drive spin at ridiculous speeds and there is no room for error. Did you bump the laptop somewhere along the trip?
As I already recommended, do a complete backup and try not to worry about it; that won't help anything. Whatever is going to happen, will happen with or without worry. Have a Merry Christmas!
I build computers on the side as a hobby, in fact I received a mother board just yesterday for the space age desktop I'm building for myself. The reason for the rebuild is that my hard drive crashed. It came back up long enough for me to rip all the needed files to DVD so in that aspect I was fortunate; I highly recommend you make a backup ASAP. It sounds as though your computer got jostled during your trip and screwed up the disc's that nj593 described. While the drive is back up now, its not a good sign as the the discs in the drive spin at ridiculous speeds and there is no room for error. Did you bump the laptop somewhere along the trip?
As I already recommended, do a complete backup and try not to worry about it; that won't help anything. Whatever is going to happen, will happen with or without worry. Have a Merry Christmas!
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