External Harddrive turned into ELECTROMAGNET!!

J

joeyjojo

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Hello

I would really appreciate it if someone could shed some light onto why when I plugged in my external harddrive after increasing its memory, I could feel a stong magnetic force coming from it. I'm not joking - as soon as i plugged it in it was as if its was a big magnet opposing the force of another magnet.

Very strange indeed - have asked computer expert and he's never come accross this.

thanking you in advance

Jo
 
Could it just be the centrifugal force of the rotating disc's, or did paper clips come flying over and stick to it?
 
What do you mean "you" felt it. Are you magneto?

And tell me this, how do you increase the memory of a Hard Drive?
 
Trizoy said:
What do you mean "you" felt it. Are you magneto?

And tell me this, how do you increase the memory of a Hard Drive?
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I think he meant to say that he put more stuff on it . . . err that dosen't make sense ,maybe he put a new HDD in the enclosure?
 
electromagnet HD

OK OK

let me clarify - i didnt increase memory, i put a bigger harrddrive in the casing.

and 'felt it' meant - crazily - it behaved like a magnet - like when u hold two magnets together, you can 'feel' the repelling forces - except there wasn't another magnet

so has anyone come accross this before, know why it happens? wont be plugging it in til i get some answers...this HD has been a nuisance ever since i got it....and now the blasted thing's possessed!
 
... humans can't experience magnetic forces. and for there to be an opposing magnetic force like you are describing there must be two magnets with the same poles being pushed together.

i'm still confused as to what you are saying. when you put your hand near it, you feel it? or it falls over from repelling your hand lol
 
It seems like your describing the disks being eccentric, which would be wierd and unlikely. Just plug it in and see what happens.
 
honestly i've explained it as best i can...

if someone out there has come accross this before they will know exactly what i mean

i posted this thread in the hope of finding an answer not as a source of amusment
 
Hey man we're not making fun of you.

I've just never come across this before so I don't know what happend. Maybe you should return it to the store and get a new one.
 
Mabe your skin doesn't resist electrical current as well as most people. And even the smallest current can affect your nerves. So you felt a repulsive force due to your nerves reacting to the electrical current.

Well that's my theory...
 
sniperchang said:
Mabe your skin doesn't resist electrical current as well as most people. And even the smallest current can affect your nerves. So you felt a repulsive force due to your nerves reacting to the electrical current.

Well that's my theory...
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That's what i am thinking as well... but still strange....

Do you physically feel this "force"? Or do you see it interact with other objects?
 
sniperchang said:
Mabe your skin doesn't resist electrical current as well as most people. And even the smallest current can affect your nerves. So you felt a repulsive force due to your nerves reacting to the electrical current.

Well that's my theory...
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lol that is terribly wrong. magnetic force is not electrical. nor is it a current.
 
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