Thanks to those who advised me on the hard drive in my Lombard I
thought was dead. The data retrieval guy told me he could detect the
drive and sent it back. I put it in a different Lombard and there it
was!
I've now bought a 120GB external drive for nightly backups and would
like advice on
On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:56 AM, w miller wrote:
Is Apple's Backup suitable for scheduling external backups?
I don't know if Backup will work w/o a .Mac account. I had started to
make my own .Mac and then thought I read somewhere that it would only
backup 2gb of data, so that's no good.
TjL
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At 1:43 AM -0800 2/10/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Ok folks. . .I've got a 75 gig IBM hard drive that sounds like a
plane taking off during initial boot, and a saw mill during normal
operation. Which is recommended? Freezer? Or Oven? Does anything
think that one or both of these ideas might
At 9:30 AM -0500 10/2/05, G-Books wrote:
Your problem sounds like dry bearings, if you're daring try the oven.
Um .. . hate to be too conventional here, but if it were me, I'd try
the backup drive as a first option. Oven and freezer definitely No
2. :-)
Ben
PS Had a Sinclair Spectrum once
Hey, Listers,
I can't vouch for notebook HD's, but I have frozen a regular Ultra
IDE HD and extracted some, but not all, the data from it. This process
can work, but probably not all the time. My two cents worth. . .
Scott Birdwell
DeFalco's Home Wine Beer Supplies
Houston TX
At 1:43 AM -0800 2/10/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Ok folks. . .I've got a 75 gig IBM hard drive that sounds like a
plane taking off during initial boot, and a saw mill during normal
operation. Which is recommended? Freezer? Or Oven? Does anything
think that one or both of these ideas might fix the
At 1:43 AM -0800 2/10/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Ok folks. . .I've got a 75 gig IBM hard drive that sounds like a
plane taking off during initial boot, and a saw mill during normal
operation. Which is recommended? Freezer? Or Oven? Does anything
think that one or both of these ideas might fix
My 60GB not very old HD started whirring this morning and, bottom line, the
computer no longer
recognizes it. TechTool doesn't see it, either. I've been trying everything,
and once or twice it opened
up on restart and I was able to drag some files to a Compact Flash card, but
when I tried to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My 60GB not very old HD started whirring this morning and, bottom line, the computer no longer
recognizes it. TechTool doesn't see it, either. I've been trying everything, and once or twice it opened
up on restart and I was able to drag some files to a Compact Flash
Or can anyone recommend a retrieval company and how much does it cost?
I have practical experience with OnTrack Data Systems out of Minnesota.
I'll start with if you have to ask how much, you probably can't afford
it. For 5GB of data recovered from a server hard drive, I paid about 6
grand,
On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there I want.
Or can anyone recommend a retrieval company and how much does it cost?
Drive Savers http://www.drivesavers.com Last time we sent a drive to
them they wanted $1200, iirc, for recovery of a SCSI disk.
But they're good, best in the
Willi
Theres a good chance that it's a bad board on the drive.
I've had great luck buying identical drives with known
good circuit boards, and swapping the boards on the drives.
Have done this 3 times now for friends with great success.
Might be the next step if none of the software solutions
OK, let try this again!
Sorry for the repost but I forgot to check my clock
after installing memory. Must have a bad Pram battery.
Willi
Theres a good chance that it's a bad board on the drive.
I've had great luck buying identical drives with known
good circuit boards, and swapping the boards on
My 60GB not very old HD started whirring this morning and, bottom line, the
computer no longer
recognizes it. TechTool doesn't see it, either. I've been trying everything,
and once or twice it opened
up on restart and I was able to drag some files to a Compact Flash card, but
when I tried to
Try putting the dying hard drive into a zip-lock bag, sealing it and
storing
it in your freezer over night. Tomorrow remove it let it warm up. You
should get an hour or more out of it so you can transfer the files to
your
new already installed drive.
John
really? thats the most bizarre fix
-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:27:09 -0500
To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com
Subject: dead hd in freezer?
Try putting the dying hard drive into a zip-lock bag, sealing it and
storing
it in your freezer over night. Tomorrow remove it let it warm up. You
should
Try putting the dying hard drive into a zip-lock bag, sealing it and
storing
it in your freezer over night. Tomorrow remove it let it warm up. You
should get an hour or more out of it so you can transfer the files to
your
new already installed drive.
John
really? thats the most
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I have personally used this trick on numerous occasions and it works. I
usually leave it in the freezer for an hour or two initially and then
copy all I can till it stops working, then cycle in and out of the
freezer at
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