Recover HD Using a Magnet
My anecdote:<p>Around 1993 I had a Commodore Amiga with an A590 external hard drive. A big enclosure that could be connected to the expansion port on the left of an Amiga 500, containing a very precious 20MB hard disk.<p>One day, it stopped working. I tried everything but I couldn’t get it to work. A friend offered to take a look at it so I put it in my backpack and took the train to my friend. When connected to his A500, the drive worked lime a charm.<p>When I drove back home in the train I wondered what would be the matter with my A500 since it apparently made my A590 hard drive fail.<p>However, once I got home and reconnected the drive, it worked. No problem whatsoever.<p>Until two days later. It failed. You know what’s going to happen, right? Took it to my friend, it worked, took it back and it worked for two more days.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, putting it in my bag, walking it around for a while worked just as well.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, dropping it from 5cm / 2 inches and reconnecting it, worked just as well.<p>Which was what I did for the next four years or so. Whenever it stopped working, I disconnected it, dropped it and reconnected it.<p>Always loved the look on the face of people who witnessed me starting up my Amiga.