Laptop HD wiped by the Bose Subwoofer?
 

This happened to anyone else? is the subwoofer in the bose sound system even strong enough to do this to a hard drive? maybe it was something else that cause the HD to die but sad time ahead for me.

I do not think the subwoofer in the Z is that powerful or even close enough to the laptop for this to happen.
~Are you able to boot into the laptops bios and check to see if the system sees the HD. Depending on the size/brand it will say something like "Western Dig 250GB," that is not anywhere near exact but close enough.

what makes you think the subwoofer did this?

thatd have to be an awfully powerful magnet. are you sure you didn't just take a turn too fast and it flew across the back? :P

Brain damage.

Magnets are not a computer's best friend.

word? im on my desktop right but my laptop is... where is it? OH NO! its in my trunk!!!!!:rofl2:

Although it may be possible.. i highly doubt the magnet in that speaker is that strong enough to do that..
Slap a new HD in there and call it a day.. hopefully you have backups of your stuff.

turns out it was a faulty connection between the hd and the laptop prolly caused by corners... =)

Jikhead and 370zsteve, magnets can wipe hds... try leaving your laptop on your home subwoofer if you have a 5.1 sound system.

if you had the laptop running, then shaking the HD while its running is a recipe for failure.

I wasn't questioning the whole theory of magnets, but just our Bose factory sub being able to do it. I had recently took apart the sub to look at it, and it's two little 4" speakers with a tiny magnet. Plus, my work laptop is in my backpack everyday back there.

I've had 12" subs wipe out harddrives about 2 ft away. Very possible as the magnets are very powerful. I don't know about your stock system doing that, maybe if you set the laptop directly on it.

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I take my Dell Laptop with me everyday to work and it rides on top of the subwoofer. No issues after 11 months.

yeah it wasn't the sub

the data was all there when reconnected with the laptop.

jikhead - didn't know the magnets were that small... makes sense though because the bass isn't very good at all