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Ernie,
How did you keep moisture away from the hard drive in the freezer, plastic bag?
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernie Bonugli" <ebonugli@xxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: RYI: Recovering data from failing drive
> List,
>
> I lost one of my disk drives. My last backup was not recent
> enough! Yeah, yeah, I know I screwed up. This was a hard
> lesson.
>
> The drive was starting to fail erratically and got
> steady worse before I was able to determine that it was
> indeed the disk drive and not some other problem.
>
> Anyway, I noticed that the system would fail more as it
> drive heated up. So in desparation, I put the disk drive in the
> freezer for about 10 minutes, quickly installed it, and
> loaded the system up, and I was able to copy files out thru
> my net over to another computer before the next crash. I
> did this several times and was able to get the data off that
> failing drive.
>
>
>
> FYI,
> Ernie
> ebonugli@xxxxxxxx
>
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