I understand that. I have used the handle of a Wooden screw driver to sort of "shock" a drive back to life. When it started we almost had to sit on the tower case to keep it still. Surprisingly I got a good backup off of that unit.
Trust me this bad boy is not getting shutdown until I have what I need. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Morgan Blackthorne <stormeri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Chances are the disk probably cooled down overnight if you had it > unplugged. As it heats up, it may fail again. Back up the most critical > files first, then try to do a full copy of the disk; that way even if the > full backup fails you've got the most critical files. > > We once ran a drive inside a dorm fridge at the ISP I worked at to be able > to recover data off of it. A friend of mine was an editor at a PC magazine > and wrote up a short article about it. > > -- > ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we > are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:11 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be >> in the range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my >> boss that and reviving him I gave the hard drive one more shot and got it >> back up and running. I must have done something right overnight. Anyway I >> kicked off the backup and had a heart attack when it said it would take >> over a day to do the back up. >> I don't have the best backup system in my office. I will though after >> this mess up. >> >> Thanks for the replies. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Ted Cabeen <t...@cabeen.org> wrote: >> >>> Even here in Southern California, we mail our drives to DriveSavers. >>> I'd just mail the drive to one of the major national services. >>> >>> --Ted >>> >>> On 3/10/2014 3:43 PM, john boris wrote: >>> > I am looking for hard drive recovery service recommendations in the >>> > Philadelphia area. I did a Google seacrh and found a few places but was >>> > wondering if anyone on the list has used any in the area and can >>> > reccommend one. >>> > >>> > TIA >>> > >>> > -- >>> > John J. Boris Sr. >>> > Member of LOPSA Board of Directors >>> > League of Professional System Administrators (lopsa.org < >>> http://lopsa.org/>) >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Tech mailing list >>> > Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >>> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> > http://lopsa.org/ >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech mailing list >>> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> http://lopsa.org/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> John J. Boris, Sr. >> Online Services >> www.onlinesvc.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> >> > -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com
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