Yesterday I inadvertently placed a bluetooth handsfree set on the palm rest of my work’s laptop. On the back on the BT set are some fairly strong magnets to hold to the visor clip. When I palced it down, the drive area started to make a moderately loud chunking noise. Didn’t think much of it at the time and then the laptop went dead.
Apparently, the strong magnet bent the drive’s arm thus making it pretty much gone. The real stupid thing was just before it happened I had gotten a coffee and was going to back-up then but decided to do it at the end of the day after more data entry. Boy, should’ve done it, huh? Not only that, I found that I last backed up 20 days ago. Normally I back-up every couple of days.
I used a drive from an extra external drive to replaced the dead one. As of now, it’s been restored back to Oct 6th data-wise and I figure a week or so to re-enter the lost data.
