Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?

[Jim Foster <jif@computer.org>]

Before you give up, remove the drive and put it in the freezer 
overnight.  Then reinstall it and try to backup any valuable data before it 
heats up.  This has worked several times for us.


At 07:53 PM 9/11/2002 -0400, John Lavin wrote:
> 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?

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James I. Foster Jr.                         jfoster "at" silver-springs.org
Information Technology Director,      Silver Springs - Martin Luther School
512 West Township Line Road                   http://www.silver-springs.org
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