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Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by pixl97 on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:16AM (#46734272)
>By the hearing alone, you may spot problems.

Yep, was pretty easy to realize when you may have a bad sector on a floppy.

Even hard drives were more than loud enough you could tell when fragmentation was getting bad or the disk was starting to act suspect.

Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by ddingus on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:37PM (#46737560)
Brzzzzt, tuk tuk tuk tuk brzzzt brzzzt tuk brzzzzt brzzzt

I/O Error :(

You listen to the initial slamming of the head to zero align it, then those happy little tuk, tuk sounds.

It all good, until it isn't!