[Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure

[George F. Saxby]

Hi,
 If you are serious about your hard disk take it out of the machine:-
a} put it in another machine (a slight voltage difference does work

2} wrap it in a antistat bag then in a freezer bag put it in the freezer for 
24 HOur.
 
Put it ice cold into your original box USE Gloves if its cold enough you can 
lose skin !! guess how I know.
 Once in the machine & she fires get yer data off NOW 

Any one who thinks I'm crazy (apart from my Wife take a number get in line )
BUT it does work used it 5-6 times in the last 9 years and save my A$$


On Tuesday 31 July 2001 23:59, your missive said : -
 > Depending on solar alignment this may or may not work, but you may wish to
 > tell the bios that it is there, by manually setting the cylinders/heads
 > etc. then booting up using a bbc or bootdisk or what have you, and see how
 > you get on, it sounds like its a mechanical failure and it is unlikely
 > this will work, but just in case, i've had hard disks which have crashed
 > on me and not been bios detected and with some perseverance you can
 > extract at least some of the data. Not that you will need to since the
 > world is about to end this evening when all of the underworld break out
 > from cisco routers and little crud puppies crawl out of everynt server in
 > the land destined like lemmings to flood whitehouse.gov with all sorts of
 > wierd stuff.
 >
 > Ahh nothing like a bit of chaos.
 >
 >
 > David
 >
 > "Putting the foo back into foobar."
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: Chris Ball <chris at cpan.org>
 > To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
 > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:20 PM
 > Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure
 >
 > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0400, ChrisJS at aol.com wrote:
 > > > On bootup, it makes choking noises and slight beeping and isn't
 >
 > recognised
 >
 > > > as being there by BIOS. When this kind of thing happens, is there any
 > > > chance of the contents being intact and recoverable ?
 > >
 > > Sure, though not the Maxtor support way. If the drive isn't spinning up,
 > > it's a mechanical rather than a media failure. The data's still there,
 > > but the electronics that read from it are down. It would be an idea, if
 > > you can, to purchase another identical Maxtor drive. Swap the controller
 > > boards over, see if it boots. If it does, copy the data across to the
 > > new drive, send the old one back and get a replacement from Maxtor.
 > >
 > > Maxtor will replace it for you, but they won't save the data. Afaik.
 > >
 > > ~C.
 > >
 > > --
 > > Chris Ball.
 > > chris at cpan.org || http://printf.net/
 > > "Every time someone says "I don't believe in theories", another theory
 >
 > dies."
 >
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george
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