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To: rudedog who wrote (43472)	1/13/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

rudedog: Very interesting - why not keep it going on the thread, its too good to waste on me. At the time I lost my data, I sued a University where the damage had been done by somebody other than myself. They sent the hard disk to an IBM laboratory in Ontario, Canada. They came back with the opinion that a program available only to engineers had written innumerable zeros over my data. That that program was designed to destroy data. I believe they also said, but this may be my lay-man's imagination, that the program had sliced off the top surface of the hard disk.

To: rudedog who wrote (43472)	1/13/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

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.)

To: rudedog who wrote (43472)	1/13/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: SS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Apparently Compaq DOES care about it's direct sales process. My phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from some very serious people in Houston. They said it is so diffecult to get honest-to-goodness constructive feedback from customers (and would-be customers). They agree that the spate of major acquisitions has had the company in a severe ramp-up mode for some time. I am impressed. BTW, I accepted their offer for the next model up the line, a Presario 1810 -- much more machine than I could have afforded at this time.