It's all fun and games until you realise the Gingerbread Man used to be the hard drive where you kept that stash of 1000 bitcoins you bought when they were a few cents a piece!Turning hard drives into Xmas paperweights.....
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Oh, I went through a process before disassembly. I have a handy USB dongle which plugs into the drive to make it an external USB drive. So each drive I checked to see if it would spin up at all (around 1/4 didn't pass that test), would it recognize on a system (another 1/2 of them failed this and wouldn't recognize), and then copy all known data to my home file server to suss through for just this reason.It's all fun and games until you realise the Gingerbread Man used to be the hard drive where you kept that stash of 1000 bitcoins you bought when they were a few cents a piece!
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Turns out the dog is the smartest
I think quite possibly this will be the dumbest thing I'll read for the next month. I have faith in the internet to provide dumber by the end of the year but this clinches the month of August