rudedog: Recently I moved home: my Compaq Deskpro was left sitting on the floor on a new carpet for a few days while awaiting my desk. I booted it up everyday. Every second day I got a disk error reading and was instructed to check the entire disk. Each day, one or two blocks on the disk were found to be corrupted. This stopped when I put the machine on the desk.
This is parting from my original motivation for the question but am I to assume that static electricity caused by the friction of my feet with the carpet near to the machine, could have interfered with the disk in this way?
(Actually, come to think of it, in the first case, I mentioned, the University tried to defend itself by saying something similar, that static electricty could have caused the loss of data, as could my moving the machine without locking the disk. But the IBM laboratory contradicted them, especially when they revealed that an "erasing" software program had been used.) |
