Hard Disk Read/write Operations

POrque los enanos que estan dentro del disco duro se pierden y no pueden volver a sus clusters y el dios cabezal por ahi puede enojarse con ellos y borrarles sus informaciones..

Toshiba?

What is that device you conected to the hard drive to make it run? Can I get one of those from my local computer shop? Because Ihave a hard drive too and I would like to see it runing before my eyes!!

This isn't exactly true. An opened hard disk becomes extremely vulnerable to dust and other elements which will cause it to fail rapidly. However, many drives can operate for a while before sustaining environment-based damage. This drive did not boot windows (though it could have done so easily). Rather, it was accessed from another machine. In conclusion, drives are sealed for a reason, but can still operate when opened, to a small degree.

Not really. Defragmentation will do nothing to stop sector errors from causing data loss. In fact, it is quite possible that defragmentin may infact *worsen* data loss, if your disk is already experiencing a failure. When a drive fails, you want to minimize any further writes and get the data off quickly. Moving any data around increases the likelihood of read errors, and even worse, writing good data to damaged sectors. Write operations don't verify that the written data is good.