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http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Regards, Rob On 14/01/07, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 14 January 2007 17:57, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I think the problem was actually caused when the owner decided to > vacuum out the insides of the computer. Never vacuum, always blow - outside. It is therefore, I suppose, a remote possibility that it's the electronics in the drive or the mobo that are effed and not the disc surface itself. Tried the drive in a different computer? Tried an electornics board from a known good identical drive? > Said individual had been > warned of the disadvantages of placing the computer on a mylon > carpet... why, with all these sheep! The current bunch of nitwits running the joint think that they are doing their constituency a favour by allowing the import of cheap goods. Thus there is no import protection for wool carpets. Wool carpet mills go belly-up the and computers get hugely over-exited on nylon carpets. The prolls need to be whipped continuously with anti-static wrist straps until they appreciate that the value of the things far exceeds the price one has to pay for them. -- CS
