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Re: IBM Hard Drive Failure


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: IBM Hard Drive Failure
  • From: Nick Austin <nick1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:45:26 +0100
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At 03:57 PM 4/11/03 +0100, Paulyahoo wrote:

> Not my week for self destructing hard disks, I have a 40gig IBM
deskstar
> that has gone tits up in one of my desktops.

Freezing a hard drive will sometimes kick-start it into working
for up to 20 minutes.

Put it inside a water-tight container then inside a freezer.  Don't
leave it in there for more than two hours.  Then put it back either
on the secondary IDE channel or as a slave drive.  Boot from a
different hard drive and recover as much data as possible before it
fails again.

Nick.



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