On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oops! My bad. It's not an IBM. Its a WD2500 Cavaliar. > WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003. > Anybody have one of those I can trade? > -- > Allen
If it's WD, you might as well toss it. They were good for awhile until they apparently started having them made with either an overseas parts, or it was an engineering defect. Several years ago, I started buying Seagate instead... WD is very testy with weather (hot & cold). My seagate external drive survived -10F to +150F... plus survived east to west US coast drives (ie. >8,000ft to < slightly below sea level). Including teh fact it also operated in +110% humidity below 0F. I used to buy WD all the time until two dropped dead (head misalignment). You can try sticking the thing in a freezer and hooking it up to try to exact the data with keeping the drive cool. (See notes on the web concerning this method.) Other then this, if it's under warranty, WD -- if you're lucky -- will just replace it with another defective drive. Seriously. Remember. Unbacked-up data is lost data! -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 18 18:15:44 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
