Comments on: PC Preventive Maintenance against the Critter Kind

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:51:27 +0000

I found this site while looking for useful information, since the ants-in-the-hard-drive problem has hit me THREE TIMES! These are usually drives that are brand new and not yet installed in PCs. I don’t understand it at all. The hard disks in question were two Western Digitals and a Seagate. Fortunately, the WDs turned out fine; I hope the Seagate does, too.

Go ahead and laugh, but the mice in the printer problem hit me, too! TWICE! What’s worse, each time the mouse decided to commit suicide in the printer! I don’t know if them being HPs had anything to do with it, but after that, I bought a Brother. So far, so good.

(This might be a repost because I hit back at the captcha to add something.)

By: Abbas

Abbas — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:44:42 +0000

I had the same experince with my Quantum Fireball. Ants normally like to eat Quantum and Maxtor Hard Drivers foams. Well, it is very strange that I never seen the ants while they are active eating it. Some times I think this is the Hdd itself throwing out it’s powders Well, by observing carefully it becomes obvious that the ants are the culprits
Sorry for your data. And thans for your advice.

By: Cyberbaguioboy » ants in my hard disk

Cyberbaguioboy » ants in my hard disk — Tue, 23 May 2006 12:03:01 +0000

[...] So I conducted some research on the Internet to find out if there were other unlucky ones who had been victimized by this pest. Lo and behold, I found one. I found this one on Pinoytech blog. It was interesting to note that it even provides tips on how to prevent it. [...]

By: eispan

eispan — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:06:36 +0000

man i feel sorry for you… that very unfortunate incident is 1 in a million of even more… murphy’s law i guess… but can you blame these industrious little critters? they’d make a home out of anything and the Philippines being a tropical country is really paradise for these creatures. they may have probably found your PC to be very comforting.

good thing that there ain’t ants here in our place… no insects in sight and i have to admit, i kinda miss them… even the lizards we have at home (plenty of them) are sights i ouwld like to see once more… hehehe

if that happened to me with my HD having so many graphics stored in, not to mention the 1000 plus picture of my baby, i’d go bananas!

hmmmm i think it’s time for me to back up though… buy another hard disk… you’ll never know what might hit you…

the similar incident i can relate to you is when termites ate all my awards and certificates even my year book just when i was about to bring them with me to UK… heartbreaker… can never have them back! sniff… sniff… sob…

By: mparaz

mparaz — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:59:43 +0000

How big was your printer, for a whole family to fit?

By: cnuguid

cnuguid — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:05:18 +0000

I remember our HP printer becoming the home of a happy family of mice despite the constant use of the thing.

By: mparaz

mparaz — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:59:46 +0000

We had a Toshiba Portege wiped out by cat pee. A shop was able to salvage it but it never worked properly afterwards.