Top 10 data destruction disasters
Published: 22 Aug 2005 11:45 BST
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.
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9 comments
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This was the dummest article ever. Bandwidth abuse... Anonymous -
gee havent heard all those ones before....
really... spacer
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Freezing a hard drive is a legitimate way to recov... jazee
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This is one of the stupidest lists I’ve seen on th... Speed D. Racer
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This seems to be a very baseless article. Such kin... jimyjoshi
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that article really didn't do much for me. Try in... mastermind
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The writer should be suspended, and the publisher... Anonymous
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Special report??
Plagiarism???
http://www.ont... Anonymous -
Poorly researched article, this columnist is lazy... neimad
