disc crash

Sadly, this project has ceased due to the sources being lost in a recent disc crash.

This has now been further complicated by the loss of the source code due to a hard disc crash on my A5000.

We had a major hard disc crash just before Christmas and we lost a load of Daniel's early digital photos.

A hard disc crash used to mean that the read/write head inside the drive had come into contact with the spinning magnetic disc, causing catastrophic damage.

Disc Crash A hardware or software malfunction resulting in an inability to access the contents of a disc.

Of course viruses aren't the only way computer systems can go wrong: you can have your computer stolen; you might simply have a disc crash or some other hardware fault.

This subject is often featured in popular culture and science fiction; The History Channel series Ancient Aliens features the Freiburg disc crash in their episode "Alien and the Third Reich" (Season 2, episode 5).