{"id":152,"date":"2011-10-24T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:49:16","slug":"serious-disk-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/152","title":{"rendered":"Serious Disk Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Sometimes my computer flashes a message box that says &#8220;Serious Disk Error.&#8221;  Is there anything I should be doing to maintain my computer disks so this won&#8217;t happen? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Jim Rehm of  San Jose, CA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Diskettes of any size or density should be cleaned and waxed once a week. Any microscopic metal particles can be removed from the disk surface by waving a powerful magnet over the disk.  If you need to &#8220;back up&#8221; your data, insert two disks into the drive at the same time.  The data will automatically be written onto both disks.  Never insert a disk upside down&#8230;or the data may fall out and get mixed up with the computer&#8217;s insides.  And, remember you can always recover lost data from any disk by typing the DOS command FORMAT \/U.  Good luck! <BR><BR> WARNING: Contact Dr. Science personally before following any of the above instructions using your own computer. At work, you&#8217;re on your own. Also, should you believe the above instructions are a great way to treat your important data, immediately contact the Montel Williams show for their upcoming segment, &#8220;Gullible people too dim to go on living.&#8221; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes my computer flashes a message box that says &#8220;Serious Disk Error.&#8221; Is there anything I should be doing to maintain my computer disks so this won&#8217;t happen? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/152\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}