Recover HD Using a Magnet
My anecdote: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.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.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.However, once I got home and reconnected the drive, it worked. No problem whatsoever.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.Turns out that disconnecting it, putting it in my bag, walking it around for a while worked just as well.Turns out that disconnecting it, dropping it from 5cm / 2 inches and reconnecting it, worked just as well.Which was what I did for the next four years or so. Whenever it stopped working, I disconnected it, dropped it and reconnected it.Always loved the look on the face of people who witnessed me starting up my Amiga.