I think he said that he let the smoke out. if that happens, you might as well right off all but the platters. depending on how far the surge went, the heads might still be usable.
-Eric On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Also, put your drive in the freezer and leave it there over night. Try to > start it back up when it's frozen. That works a surprising number of times > but be ready to back it up right away. > > > On Nov 5, 2010, at 3:53 PM, ISAAC OBIE wrote: > >> Hi May, >> Hard drives may crash, but the info can be retrieved even though the drive >> has crashed. They do have data recovery services..... >> Isaac >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "May McDonald" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 6:36 PM >> Subject: OT Going to seriously cry now >> >> >>> Ok, I'm not at home with the list of people that have already responded to >>> me regarding my server. Bad news, it's going to take a lot longer than I >>> thought to get it back up and not because it's not working. My lovely hard >>> drive that had all the audio books decided it didn't want to share it's >>> information with it's new home and blew up!!! I just lost thousands of >>> audio books that took me a year to collect. The movies and tv shows made it >>> because they were on a different drive, but I'm not hapy about losing the >>> books. I do plan on getting them all back after I'm done bashing my head >>> against a wall and ten beating my computer into dust! >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
