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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One very old suggestion to try which is very
simple, but I've seen it work many times. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IF you suspect your hard disk has gone bad, you can
often bring it back to life (at least long enough to get the info off it onto a
new drive) by putting it into TWO plastic bags which have been sealed by
twisting the ends and putting a twist tie tightly around them. Put the first bag
on the drive and seal it. Then put the second bag over the first and seal it
too. This is done to prevent any moisture from forming on the outside or inside
of the hard drive. Then put it in a freezer overnight. Take it out of the
freezer and defrost it first before removing the two bags. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a very old trick that my friends and I have
often used to temporarily repair hard drives and get them working long enough to
get the data off them. This is because drives usually go bad because the
bearings fail, and when you radically change the temperature of the drive it is
often enough to move the shaft and bearing back into the proper position. Try
it. Although there are no guarantees you shouldn't hurt the drive in any case,
and you might solve your problem AND save your data to boot. If the hard drive
is bad already you literally have nothing to lose!! REMEMBER THIS IS NOT A
PERMANENT FIX!! Good Luck, AL</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:jalmario@intrah.org" title=jalmario@intrah.org>Joselito
Almario</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:trilug@trilug.org"
title=trilug@trilug.org>trilug@trilug.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 08, 2002 11:00
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [TriLUG] Its broke and I
gotta fix it</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=270125715-08022002>In
addition to checking your jumpers cable power and such you might want ot also
check the status of the controllers on the motherboard and the hard drive
itself. Usually if the controllers are bad you can still see the hard
drive registered, but anythings possible. YOu can use a tool like
microscope 9 if you can get a hold of it, or Tuff test which is more
accesible, but nor as thorough as Microscope 9.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> trilug-admin@trilug.org
[mailto:trilug-admin@trilug.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Jturena@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:57
PM<BR><B>To:</B> trilug@trilug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [TriLUG] Its broke and
I gotta fix it<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
size=2>This is rather selfish, but I have a system that "jammed" on me, and
I am new with Linux, and need to fix the problem, so was wondering if I
could get any help here, or not. <BR>(the machine is in the hands of a
repairman that cannot fix it because he knows less about Linux than me, but
I was hoping he would examine the hardware-- I need to get the machine back
from him) <BR>Running RedHat7.0. Home PC. <BR>Had Gnome open; had Netscape
open; computer was sitting 'on'; woke up one morning in the wee hours of the
morning and heard my computer "cycling" through a short rhythmic whirl.
Interface was unresponsive; had to turn off machine to proceed; <BR>Turned
back on-- during booting it read "primary master disk: None; primary slave
disk: None". <BR>Where do I begin? By telling you what is in it? Ask
and I will try and tell you-- but like I said, I am brand new with
computers. With me it is all a big learning process. This one a man put
together for me +/- $900. (think I made a mistake. But I wanted to learn
GNU-Linux. Looks like I am going to get the lessons I need). <BR>(and could
it have anything to do with the computer going to "screensaver" and running
through that entire file, and then whigging out? that would not explain the
'lost' disks, though) <BR>Anyway, as always, I would appreciate any
comments. <BR>Thanks in advance, for at least the opportunity to post this.
<BR>Jim</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>