Gigabytes

you're kidding, right? no, that doesn't happen. you might knock some of the internals out of line, but the gigabytes is a size thing, not a glued on thing. ya know? or are you just trying to mess with people?

must be - mine seems to slow down after i kick mine too

You have 78 posts and you're asking this question? Wow.

No. Your friend is the dumbest person to ever walk this planet. That's all.

Man dont discriminate my friend... Hes really cool and at the moment im more inclined to believe him because atm im not sure whether ur being fair dinkum or whether ur pulling my leg...

you put a bucket under your HDD
soice the gigabytes are invisable, all you have to do is open it your HDD up and pour them back in

Actually, hard drives are magnetic. There's no lens in them at all. On the tip of the arm is just magnetic read/write heads. Trust me, I've looked in enough dead drives to know. When I first saw this post, I thought it was Muffin and that he had gone off the deep end, but then I saw the 22 REP.

To answer your question, no. You do not lose gigabytes. I'd suggest you and your friend to read this website on hard disk drive construction: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/op/over.htm

Basically, there's two things that can happen if you shock your HDD. One, nothing...drive operates normally. Two, the head (electromagnetic reader/writer) slams into the platter and damages the surface and/or the head itself. <-- This would most likely result in a complete hard drive crash which would sound like screaching breaks on an automobile.

Edit: In short, don't go about drop-kicking your HDD...save that madness for a soccer ball, or your friends chest! lol

this will sort you out http://www.overclock.net/jokes-humor...tml#post763223

You think that's bad, my wife cleaned my monitor yesterday, and wiped off thousands of pixels, do you think newegg sells 'em by the dozen or hundred or what?

ha ha. I've got a car related one (sorry to be off topic) from a local newspaper column. "My boyfriend refilled my headlights for me."

Your friend is right. A good way to fix this problem when you have lost most of your gigabyts is to take 2 or more HHD, lie your LCD monitor flat on your desk, and genlty stack the HHDs on the monitor. The next step requires you to atempt to merge the drive physicly with a hammer, or a blowtorch. Screaming "look at me, I'm a stupid n00b" raise your chance of sucess.

Guys, I hope this guy came in here looking for a decent response, ridiculous question or not. Please treat him with appropriate respect, we were all new guys on the block once.

RE your question, no they don't fall out, but you may lose some due to the read/write head(s) smacking the platter and scratching it.

i think the guy with the cat holding a sniper rifle is messing with us. no way you can be that dumb, i mean comeone, i'm not that dumb! hmm, what is the world coming to? falling out! Ha! anyway....so.....um....now that that is cleared up...