I can't believe it. A crashed hard drive in the fridge! I first thought
this was all a joke. You people never cease to amaze me!
I won't be able to make it to the meeting. Leaving this city. However
----- I hope someone will take notes with ME in mind.
Marta
Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin a.D.!
On Mar 22, 2004, at 00:19, Bill Holt wrote:
> Don,
>
> I can't vouch for the "freezer" approach, but did, some years ago, have
> success by substantially cooling a malfunctioning hard drive and doing
> an
> immediate file recovery operation. If it were me, I would bag the
> unit with
> several containers of dried silica sand and put it in the fridge over
> night.
> Loosen the cover screws before-hand. Turn the a/c down in the room as
> far
> as you can stand it.
>
> I'd be sure to have a full can of canned air for cooling and drying
> purposes.
>
> Next morning, I'd fire up the puter, fire up "SCSI Mounter", and put
> the
> 'puter to sleep. Then, I'd pull the drive out of the fridge, hook it
> up to
> the 'puter, lift off the cover, and turn it on. And if it made
> anything
> like a startup sound, I'd wake up the computer and use SCSI Mounter to
> attempt to mount it. I'd gently tap the mechanism with a screwdriver
> if the
> drive didn't appear to be winding up - and stop as soon as it showed
> any
> signs of life.
>
> Then, if the drive mounted, I'd copy my most critical files first - in
> the
> fastest way - preferably to an internal HD. If there is an option, it
> may
> be preferable to recover to an ATA/IDE drive (a HD or a zip) instead of
> another SCSI unit. While files were transferring, I'd use the canned
> air to
> keep the unit cool and to counteract any visible signs of condensation
> on
> the control board.
>
> Then, if I were successful, I'd swear to implement a routine backup
> program
> so that the next time I had a hard drive fail it would only be an
> inconvenience. This, incidentally, I did after that failure some
> years ago,
> and it made my second HD failure, last year, tolerable.
>
>
>> From: Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com>
>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:20:54 -0500
>> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>> Subject: MacGroup: Crashed hard drive
>>
>> A friend of mine has had what sounds like a hard drive crash of a
>> LaCie
>> Tsunami external SCSI drive connected to a G3 Mac. She isn't sure
>> exactly what size the drive is; she says believes it's more than five
>> years old and in the 100-200 MB range.
>>
>> She says it made a "clicking" or "clunking" sound right before (or
>> when) it died. Now when plugged in and connected it emits several
>> beeps, the power light blinks red for a while and then goes solid
>> green, but it doesn't appear to spin up.
>>
>> She has several months of unbacked-up data on this drive and would
>> really like to be able to recover whatever is recoverable. She has
>> called several places that recover data, but they have estimated a
>> cost
>> of $500-$1200 -- if it's even recoverable. That's more than she can
>> afford (or thinks the data is worth to her).
>>
>> Does anyone out there have any suggestions on:
>>
>> 1. Tricks she might try to get the drive to spin up at least one more
>> time so she can copy files off it?
>> 2. A lower-priced data recovery option?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
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