Defraging your mother disk

[thayne]

Be sure you read each step before trying this!
http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php

[Rschultz]

I am now getting a disc error message?

[thayne]

I am now getting a disc error message?

You must have missed a step. Start over and do it again...

[gmatov]

Thayne,

You're a real prick!

You know some one is going to damn well try this.

You should at least put a disclaimer on your post that DVDRHelp is not responsible.

Meanwhile, I got an old 540 meg upstairs that needs a good defrag. Have to give it a try.

Cheers,

George

[Solarjetman]

Defraggling huh?

"Dance your cares away, worries for another day,
Let the music play, down in Defraggle Rock"

Seriously though, its kinda mean not to put a warning that this is a satire site. Someone here is going to try this because they are not experienced with computers.

And couldn't they come up with a name better than "Electric one-eyed nerd device" for the arm and head of the drive?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Those Swedes have a wacky sense of humor.

I liked "change graphic card":http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_kortbyte1.php

[Solarjetman]

I liked "change graphic card"

HA! duck tape for the hole. sweet.

[defense]

Funny stuff....on a serious note though..HD's do have the 1's and 0's scattered across them and even a FULL FORMAT won't fix that issue. You'll have to do a "LOW LEVEL" format to accomplish this.

I know Maxtor has software called "POWER MAX" which will write 1's and 0's back to the drive so it will be just like it came from the factory.

I used to think simply formatting the drive with "MAXBLAST" or even better..."FDISK" would get the drive fresh..but it won't....every six months or so a nice low level format with a ghost back up works wonders to the registry and everything else.

[mrtristan]

That was pretty funny. I have to hide that from my dad, or he's bound to defraggle his data drive.

[Craig Tucker]

Thayne,

You're a real prick!

You know some one is going to damn well try this.

Now lets not be name calling George, this was oviously put up as a light hearted joke, and I can't believe anyone who even knows how to turn a PC on would be stupid enough to try this method. Everyone knows you use Swarfega to clean the discs, not Svinto.

[Will Hay]

Everyone knows you use Swarfega to clean the discs, not Svinto.

For me it's jif
Will

[Craig Tucker]

Everyone knows you use Swarfega to clean the discs, not Svinto.

For me it's jif
Will

I was going to put that, but hasn't the name changed from jif to cif, in my state of indecision I though stuff it, and put Swarfega. You have to use the one with the abrasive particles though

[The village idiot]

I only saw 2 steps How do I finish the procedure. I got the lid off , but lacking any more instruction I'm stuck! HELPHELP! Damn!

[Will Hay]

......but hasn't the name changed from jif to cif

Not where I come from.
Bastards!!!!!!!
Actually, I nearly wrote (in fact I did write and omitted it)...
...."the semen of a righteous man"
But thought better of it.
(what was I thinking?)
Actually, it's from a 'friends' episode now I rememeber
Will

[i_am_dave]

OH MY GOD, this procedure has a major flaw.!!!

Between steps 13 and 14, they forgot to re-install the electric-one-eyed-nerd!

It is no wonder people are having problems!

How many here remember the old days (early 70's) when we had huge disk platters and one-eyed-nerd crashes occurred all the time?

[gmatov]

Craig,

Aren't those smilies enough to show I was kidding. Maybe I should have placed them up a little closer to the first line.

I hope Thayne doesn't think I was being a prick.

George

BTW, I'm having trouble defraggling that 540, have to go back to the site for a closer look.

[thayne]

Craig,

Aren't those smilies enough to show I was kidding. Maybe I should have placed them up a little closer to the first line.

I hope Thayne doesn't think I was being a prick.

George

BTW, I'm having trouble defraggling that 540, have to go back to the site for a closer look.

No, I knew you were joking. :d

[g_shocker182]

The reading-nerd device sometimes becomes dirty, mainly due to junk mail and infections (viruses).

[g_shocker182]

[thayne]

Nice Datamachine you have there

[g_shocker182]

I thought so too. The battery guage provides a nice touch.

[thayne]

The temp guage is nice too! You can see if it over heats. If you notice it runs kinda warm all you have to do is weld a couple of heat sinks to the top where it feels the hottest I found the best heat sinks are 45 pound iron olympic barbell plates. Makes your datamachine more stable too cause your leaf blower can't blow it off the desk anymore when you are blowing the dust out of it!