Fun w/ External Hardrives!

[Stephen Colbert]

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[Zharkake]

lol 5000g in 1 day, kill a MC boss and keep looting the Gold ?

[Flannel007]

I'll try these tricks with my external hard drive when I can. If the following posted works, you'll be swimming in a pool full of rep. twocents

[Mallak]

Sweet man, +rep

[kingofhacks]

lol bought a cheap 40gb lol im evil warsong gulch orac running at me num lock lol thx +rep

[Maq-]

You seem to be forgetting the fact that the computer is always sending data back to that external hard drive as well, and most of the time the data being sent is cached in a write buffer. When you just unplug it without properly stopping the device, the system doesn't have time to write any cached data, and it's extremely easy to corrupt all the data on the drive, if for example, the allocation table is being modified.

External flash media is different, they can almost always be safely pulled without risking data loss, but with a hard drive, it's not worth it. Unless you only have WoW installed on the drive, and don't care about down-time due to re-formatting the drive and re-installing WoW =)

[ZOMG]

I have an external USB HD connection that I can't see PHYSICALLY hurting my drive, sure data may corrupt, but oh well. I may try this tomorrow, anyone else try it yet?

[The Metal]

Nice, will see if this works. +rep if it works.

You need to make sure that your operating system is on your internal harddrive. not external

[freewarcry]

sweet +rep

[adam21]

Oh, sweet. I go back and forth from my mom's house to dad's house once a month, so this outa be fun (since I just keep WoW on an external 80gb HD). xD (no lag from running it either )

[Tink]

Nice, will see if this works. +rep if it works.

You need to make sure that your operating system is on your internal harddrive. not external

No.

Flaska

[outcast]

3. Looting! I have had a bit of trouble w/ this, but I have got it to work a few times. All you have to do is open the loot window while simutameously pulling the cord, putting it back in, looting, pulling it out, then once you put it back in you can loot it again (and repeat for that matter). Only got it to work on a few trash mobs, but I imagine this would be great for looting bosses w/ good gear over and over.

Unfortunatly , client side only. This glitch is caused due to making a looting request to the server, but never registering this request on the client. Thus once the connection is restored to the client, it will not be aware of the graphical change of the corpse.. thus letting you loot. The server however will not accept this request and just reply with a graphical update.

2. Stepping on the cord (hehe). Putting wieght on the cord can stop flow to the computer, so it is an alternative. This is the least effective and has the most potiental of damage, so I suggest you only do this if drunk.
Peace.

i lol'ed , stepping on a cord isn't going to do shit other than permanently damaging it xD so yeah.. i guess youre right, it would stop the flow rofl.

[horod]

or you just pull the powercord - same effect Dx

[treyska]

isn't everything here client-side?

other than forced lag, which you can more easily (and safely) duplicate with a modem with a standby or pause button?

[Morphih]

Isn't there some sort of program wich can do exactly the same without haveing to AND buy a externel drive AND pulling the cord. It would be nice if you could just push a hotkey