should i use a shopvac or an air compressor to clean the dust out of my pc

also do i have to remove the cpu cooler to get the dust out or can i just stick an air hose next to the heatsink and blow the dust out? the case is bgears bpellucid micro atx and the cooler is a cooler master hyper 212 black

u/Recent-Body-728 — 3 months ago

got a failing seagate momentus drive. any recoverable data?

Make: Seagate MomentusThin-B
Model: ST500LM021
Size:500GB
MBR Partition Table

Partitioning:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1: size: 128gb. filesystem type: ext4. mountpoint: /
/dev/sda2: size: 2gb. filesystem type: ext4. mountpoint: /boot
/dev/sda3: size: 8gb. filesystem type: swap. mountpoint: /swap
/dev/sda4: size: 80gb. filesystem type: ntfs. mountpoint: /mnt/windows-files

drive has an imminent SMART failure and is at 50% drive health
the drive will still turn on and read data

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u/Recent-Body-728 — 5 months ago