Hi Ken!

Are you SURE that the hard drives are being affected by any sort of scanning
equipment? I've been on numerous business trips where I've taken my laptop (HP
Pavilion to be exact, not meant to be an endorsement whatsoever), and it's
been through the un-checked baggage x-ray, and the checked baggage x-ray without
an issue. I don't think they would radiation harden their consumer
machines...but I could be wrong about that.

MRI? I thought I was up-to-date about scanning equipment being used in the
industry, since we build the stuff that goes into the L3 Communcations machines
that you might see in the airports.

But I must say, I haven't heard of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) being
used to screen baggage, or cargo. If it were, I would think that it could have
great affect on hard drives...

Where have you heard that?

MRI is useful to look at things non-metallic like human flesh and bones from
my limited knowledge. I have read of a story that a child was killed in a room
by a MRI machine that was turned on when a oxygen tank in the same room was
overlooked and wound-up being sucked into the area where the child was
positioned, then sustained fatal injuries from the oxygen bottle. I can't imagine that
MRI would be used for baggage or cargo screening. But then again I could be
wrong.

-Steve Gregory-
Experts,

We are seeing some kind of damage to the computer (hard drive) going through
some kind of scanning (X-Ray/MRI). Does anyone has faced similar problems
and if so how it was fixed? Can X-Ray scanning damage the computer hard
drive? May be MRI but I am not sure.



Any help will be highly appreciated.



Re,

Ken Patel

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