Here's how to fix it:
Ensure your hard drive is pointing north with the connectors to the south. This is very important.
Get yourself a large industrial-strength magnet. Anything that weighs a pound or so should do.
Swipe the magnet against the top of the hard drive (from south to north) fifty times. It has to be precisely fifty times.
If you do it less, your drive is a paper weight. If you do it more, your drive will explode when you power it on.
Plug that forgeter back in and bask in the glory of your rekindled hard drive. Meteor-hemmroids is now gone.
