[PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?

[John Lavin <jlavin@ccil.org>]

Argh - it looks like an 80 gig Maxtor I bought a few weeks has gone
belly up on me.

I was on my pc and I started hearing knocking coming from the hard
drive.  Any action going to the disk hung.  ctrl-alt-bksp pulled me down
to the shell and I saw the irq errors etc all over the place.  I had to
switch off.  Tried powering up and got the same knocking - Lilo never
makes it past "L".

Should I write off my data?

-john
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