Embarrassing Data Crashes
10. A PhD candidate lost her entire dissertation when her vibrator was dropped on the power supply causing it to fizz and send a power surge to the hard drive. After a visit from her techie neighbor he managed to recover 90% of her data. She no longer uses the vibrator near her laptop
9. While trying to find her pet cat, a woman dropped a five pound piece of clay pottery on her laptop, directly onto the hard drive area that contained a film script she’d been working on for 2 years and 150 year-old genealogy pictures that had not yet been printed.
8. When a husaband accidently deleted his childs baby pictures and was threatened with divorce, he quickly ran with his computer down to pcworld and go everything recovered, including his collection of Jessica Alba pics
7. A dog saw a memory stick and thought it would make a nice chew toy. Even though the stick have teeth marks all over it and a hole though it the data was recovered.
6. A man attempting to recover data from his computer on his own found the job too challenging mid-way through and ended up sending Ontrack his completely disassembled drive — with each of its parts in a separate baggie.
5. A clockmaker suffered a system meltdown, losing the digital designs for all of its clocks. Ontrack literally beat the clock recovering all their data just in time for an important international tradeshow.
4. During a multi-drive RAID recovery, engineers discovered one drive belonging in the set was missing. The customer found the missing drive in a dumpster, but in compliance with company policy for disposing of old drives, it had a hole drilled through it.
3. After one of their executives experienced a laptop crash, the Minnesota Twins professional baseball team called on Ontrack to rescue crucial scouting information about their latest prospects. The team now relies on Ontrack for all data recoveries within its scouting and coaching ranks.
2. A frustrated writer attacked her computer with a hammer. When the engineers received the computer, the hammer imprint was clearly visible on the top cover.
1. In hopes of rescuing valuable company information, a customer pulled an old laptop out of a warehouse where it had been sitting unused for 10 years. When engineers opened the computer, it contained hundreds of husks of dead and decaying cockroaches.
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