longdongsilver

External hard drive just stopped working, so i was told to buy one of these usb hard drive docking units where you take apart the external hard drive casing then take out the hard drive and slot it in the usb dock.

It worked perfectly could read all of the data etc. However copied everything over to my other external drive and decided to ccclean the old drive (took 5 hours) and was going to get rid of it.

Turned the dock off and pulled out the drive. Immediately my hand felt all numb and the drive was actually forcing my wrist to rotate so dropped in on the carpet thinking i had just got some kind of shock. The drive was actually spinning around on the carpet and flipped up and was flapping around for quite a few seconds like fish out of water. I ran out of the room.

The force was quite incredible i would have had no chance at holding this thing steady it twisted my wrist pretty badly just holding on to it for second.

The floor is just carpet over wooden floor boards so what was causing this to jump around?

Hand still feels weird, now. What the fuck was that? i know they have magnets inside but surely that does not explain that since it was turned off and the floor is just wooden floor boards??