Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes: > One of my friends windows machine died today - boots up only half way > through the windows splash screen and freezes. There is one file he wants > to recover out of it, but it seems to be suffering from hardware failure > because attaching the disk via USB enclosure to another computer will only > let him load the USB mass storage device, and won't go any further than > that.
Hm. One thing you can try that has worked for me is to freeze the drive. stick it in a ziplock and put it in the freezer for a few hours. then plug it in and try to get the data you need immediately. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
