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6. Baby Blues
One couple had hundreds of pictures of their baby's first three months on their computer. When a virus struck their PC, the computer manufacturer advised them to reload the operating system but they forgot to save the data.

7. Construction Calamity
During the construction of a large office building, a steel beam fell on a laptop computer containing the building plans, crushing the laptop.

8. Toilet Trauma
One man became so mad with his malfunctioning laptop computer, he threw it into the toilet and flushed a couple of times.

9. Road Kill
A woman placed her laptop on top of her car while she got in. She forgot about the laptop, which slid off the back of her car, and she then reversed straight over it and reported hearing a 'crunch'.

And finally…

10. Runway Wreckage
A laptop computer was run over by an aeroplane. Even Ontrack's recovery engineers don’t understand how it happened, but that was the customer's explanation.


Jim Reinert is Ontrack Data Recovery senior director of Software and Services.

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This was the dummest article ever. Bandwidth abuse.

via Facebook 23 August, 2005 17:50
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gee havent heard all those ones before....

really guys you should cut the urban myth bs

via Facebook 23 August, 2005 17:50
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Freezing a hard drive is a legitimate way to recover the contents, and it works. Just make sure the drive is dry and you have a way to pull the data off immediately. Dry ice works well too, because the drive will stay cold while doing the data recovery.

via Facebook 24 August, 2005 14:07
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This is one of the stupidest lists I’ve seen on the internet in a long time. I'm surprised that a site as credible as ZDnet would be willing to post this crap. Some of the lists are fun and informative; but this list is full of boring helpdesk urban legends. Reading this list I was expecting to see something like Virus takes down CNN, or Power Outage causes IBM to loose 3 years of sales records, not a story about a friend of a friend who heard of a guy who accidentally spilled a can of soda on his laptop and cried for 3 days.

via Facebook 24 August, 2005 17:40
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This seems to be a very baseless article. Such kind of article just wastes time. How can such a article can get slashdotted i dnt understand.

via Facebook 24 August, 2005 18:40
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that article really didn't do much for me. Try instead: http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

via Facebook 25 August, 2005 00:03
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The writer should be suspended, and the publisher who aproved this junk should be sent back the 4th grade, where this may have been funny/creative.... Where were they going with this?

P.S. a hard drive can be temporarily brought back to life in the freezer. Good thing your staff is educated.

via Facebook 26 August, 2005 14:35
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Poorly researched article, this columnist is lazy and should have their employment reviewed.

via Facebook 1 September, 2005 01:00
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Special report??

Plagiarism???

http://www.ontrack.com/newsreleases/index.asp?getPressRelease=5493

via Facebook 1 September, 2005 11:55
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