Better make a sandwich of it first with a couple of bits of ½" thick wood so you don't mark, or bend the casing It also gives you something to hold onto so you don't damage your fingers
JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Trouble!! Desktop Won't Boot > Last resorts ... is this a standard desktop ide drive? Try chilling it > in the fridge. If there is still NO power at all after that, and you > have decided it is DEAD, USELESS, hold the IDE drive level and slam it > firmly against a hard horizontal surface (concrete floor?) once, I've > twice seen this revive a "dead" drive long enough to get SOME files off > it. Maybe it "unsticks" a stuck drive head on a platter or something. > > Jim Dykes wrote on 10/03/2006, 15:29: > > > > > ......as soon as I get it running........ > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
