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PostIcon Posted on: Dec. 06 2001,22:07  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
if you run large magnets over it, it should breath life back into it. That always works..

side note: Bummer dood, unless it will fire up from another system, I am guessing your outta luck

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Interesting... a couple of weeks ago my drive died on the same day as my friend's. Mine made a brief high-pitched FZZZ when I turned on the computer one day... and that was it's last breath of life. My friend's drive was purchased as-is at a show for about 5 bucks, so we proceeded to give it the gravity test by dropping it from 2 stories high onto hard pavement, numerous times.

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PostIcon Posted on: Dec. 06 2001,23:05 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
large magnets? wtf?

im gonna see if i can take this into my mom's office tomorrow. try and get it to b00tar. heh.

if not, looks like a new 40 gig deskstar, and the gravity test. complete with highly combustable nitro fuel. yeah...

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if not, looks like a new 40 gig deskstar, and the gravity test. complete with highly combustable nitro fuel. yeah...

<ReetStraver>nitroos combustamables make your hard drives go fastar</ReetStraver>

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40 gig deskstar

That wouldn't happen to be the 40GXP or whatever would it?

They don't call those the 'deathstars' for no reason, you know.

Go with a Western Digital. In the very rare problems that I've had with them, their 3 year warranty and good service make up for it in full.

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i thought ibm deskstars were good drives..... hrm...
my dead drive was a 20 gig western digital. but im pretty sure its past its warranty
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Rhydant, if you need a 'puter to hook that up to to see if it's trashed, I can help you out. I only have like 6 extra POS computers lying around. And you live like 15 minutes from me heh

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or at least i think it did. the other day i booted up and got a Disk Read Error. i opened up the dusty ol case, and switched power cords 4 times, with the same result. i have no idea how in the fuck this happened.

so i think its dead.

is there any way to recover my data? i dont care if i lose the drive, but i had all my music and programs and pr0n. aaggghh!

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PostIcon Posted on: Dec. 07 2001,05:39 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
If it is dead, it won't be cheap. Data recovery services usually charge quite a bundle. Did you have S.M.A.R.T. enabled on your system to warn you before it died completely?

I suggest taking it to another system and hooking it up to see what you can recover from it.

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nah, im gonna go into the office at noon today and help the IT guy out a little bit. i kind of owe him, seeing as he gave me this computer. for free.

and if i cant get it working, im gonna go buy another drive. but thanks..... i think o_O

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