The WORST Data Recovery I've Ever Done
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
- The story of trying to recover data off of the most disgusting computer I've ever seen. This 1999 or 2000 PIONEX 500mhz intel Celeron desktop was absolutely horrifying, and yet I STILL GOT THE DATA!! This thing spent the last 20+ years in probably the basement of a hoarder house and it certainly shows, and SMELLS like that!
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I worked at a shop once time and the guy brought his rig in with the side panel already off. From 5 feet away I could already smell cat pee. Well he said that he played a lot of fallout new Vegas and it was getting really hot and man this computer had a layer of dusty piss soaked cat hair in it. The bottoms was rusted out very similar to yours. I was like man, I’ll get the data off of it for you and clean it up, but I recommend a new computer. Well he just wanted me to clean his old one up (of course) which took me about two days because I kept getting so nauseous cleaning it. But, his old gtx 560 looked bice and clean and even though I soaked the heat sink in alcohol after removing the fan when you turned it on, it still had a piss smell that it ventilated through the room. Charged the dude extra for a biohazard fee. Disgusting. And then expected it to be my problem that his computer was so freaking nasty. People are ridiculous.
Dead ass tho, this rusty shoebox of a pc case would fit perfectly in my old shed.
Just so twice a year I can bang out solitaire gameplay
Thank god I have an IDE to USB and an IDE to SATA connector that my dad bought years ago to recover our old PC's HDD.
Not always works. I tried to recovery data (a custom software that controlled a CNC machine) from a similar Seagate HDD that was used in an old 486 PC; the HDD was 4G in size but all my IDE/SATA to USB detected the HDD with no partitions, except one that detected some broken partition table. That is why, I connected the HDD to an old P1 motherboard that I have and I was able to boot from it, and recover that software.
Good thing I used Linux to first try, because later, when I tried to repair the HDD in Windows, just connecting it, the original partition table was messed up so badly that it no longer booted (when connected, Windows initialized the HDD without prompting).
Remember that in old days, there were many software that adapted the HDD geometry (or even the older BIOS could do that) in a non-standard or non-native way so the actual geometry, partition table are not readable by modern IDE to USB adapters. Just setting in BIOS a HDD as large or C/H/S instead LBA resulted in a changed geometry that give many errors when reading the files in modern computers.
@@sebastian19745 damn. So, a professional data recovery technician hoards old motherboard for this reason?
I got one. Fries every IDE drive that gets plugged into it. Works fine with Sata, though.
@@Levy_Wilson damn. The molex connections were a real fire hazard.
@@AlashAls I am not a profesional data recovery but I have "just in case" a 386, P1, P2/3 Slot1, P3 motherboards with various SCSI, MFM and IDE adapters.
And, yes, I do believe that some old motherboards are useful, but the chance to be used is very very slim, because old HDDs are hard to came for recovery.
If not for other, the old hardware can be used to play with old, retro software, OS, games.
I would have tried to save the mainboard. An Super-Socket 7 ATX is quite rare nowadays, to me the Varta barf (on 486 and older) are more of a mainboard killer than rust.
Erratum: it is a Socket 370, less rare but you know always good to try saving them :)
(Me, with piles of old computers everywhere) wait, this isn't normal? 🤣🤣
If you cant stand the heat, stay away from the kitchen
My wife an i are independent electronics engineers for industrial and infrastructure applications.
Have seen much worse. Rat nest machine control panel. Rotten fluids of electrocuted rats causing a short. The smell of burnt electronics with rat poop and rat decompositions.
The worst I cleaned was a cat piss filled pc with dead roaches. It was rusted from the amount of cat piss in it, I'm honestly amazed I got that old IDE hard drive to last long enough to dump.
0:20 back in 2008 I did tech support for iMac users, the company I worked for was the only non-Apple support group to exist. We had a guy who got to a point where his computer needed to be brought into an Apple store where they denied working on it due to the large amount of tobacco dust. I was the third person who was unlucky enough to get a call from this abusive person. He was "banned" from calling in, his number immediately routed to an Apple agent. I was also the unlucky one who was tasked with reviewing the computer before making the ultimate call to hand off the case straight to Apple. he must have had a houseful o f smokers near the thing! at the time I was a smoker and even I had misgivings of touching the thing. I think I wasn't quite prepared as I didn't think it could get that bad. Even for me, I always went outside to smoke, so nothing in my apartment outside of my clothes had any smoke damage, and that was easy enough to maintain with weekly laundry. He even tried taking Apple to court over it. 🤣
I've got a pristine Dell Dimension 4100 I use for my IDE needs. Those old towers definitely still have their use when it comes to data recovery
I have an 1156 board with both SATA and IDE
That's pretty handy, I didn't think IDE made it into the late 2010s
@@NoName5589 1156 is late 00s to early 10s tho (1st gen core i)
Yeah no you're right, I was thinking and typing two different decades
this video should defo blow up, it looks like a video that can reach 200k
You take the working parts, and you put the rest in the bin.
this made me hard drive
I have a very similar monitor, mine is branded as "multiscan", they are definitely some sort of generic oem thing.
genuinely surprised how the hard drive still (barely) worked after seeing more than 20 years of dust, being an RMAed part and getting vacuumed
lucky that CRT didnt burn down your house
with that kind of damage its a miracle anything worked
the monitor working is quite neat. but maybe I have a soft spot for CRT monitors though.
A hazmat suit is recommended.
nobody has ide to usb but there is plenty of people who have usb to ide. I have 3 of them and i am one of those tech people.
Try suggesting to someone, even techs to find a usb to scsi (any, and there's multiple generations and types) or usb to SAS and THAT is a LOT harder.
At least there are no bedbugs...
Is that the Shinedown logo in your profile picture? If so that's awesome lol
That Shows how sealed hdd,s are, rest is flooded away. Hdd gets going
Pionex built a nice system!
NOT THE RUST SLANDER
Rust mentioned
I'd wipe the drive and use it to shuffle worthless files around. See how long it would last.
Cap, I once bought a PC with a cockroach nest in the PSU, wanted to burn my house down after that
You can make a cartridge for nes from a BIOS chip, write your own game...
The sound effects are just a little bit too loud I think
Nice video dude
4:34 is that a will it microwave reference ?
Holy shart
Even my Grandparent’s Dell Dimension Is more cleaner than this
RIP that CRT that could be repaired.
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Swamp gooch pc
gooch collector imminent
you will need more than a ziplock bag with this one...
who's that girl on the thumbnail?
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