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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, it was in my brothers winders rig. Winders couldn't do anything but |
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> puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old Linux |
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> rig. I mounted it ro and got the data off it FIRST THING. There was a |
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> boatload of pictures from their camera. Anyway, the data seems to be safe |
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> tho a few may have gotten messed up. I got to test that in a bit. |
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> Is this terminal or can something be done to correct this? I did run the dd |
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> command before I ran the selftest. |
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Normally, you can extract a little more life out of the drive, but |
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it's on its last legs. At work, I was once stuck using a drive that |
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failed on me three times. Each time, it happened to be in the |
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hibernate.sys file, which meant the machine didn't wake up properly |
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each time the drive glitched. I was on that drive a few months before |
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it was finally replaced. |
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The trouble with that approach, though, is that you don't know when |
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the drive is going to glitch out, and it's more difficult to diagnose |
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other issues when it might be a strangely-corrupted file somewhere. |
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> I don't think it matters but thought it |
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> wouldn't hurt either. If it is terminal, I'll get my screwdriver out and |
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> see what these drives look like on the inside. The last one I looked into |
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> was a old 14" thing many years ago. Platters were about the size of 33 rpm |
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> records. lol Dang I'm old. O_O |
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I'm partial to percussive data destruction, myself. The steel platters |
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will even stop .45 ACP, but they don't stop any rifle round I've |
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tried. If you want to see what they look like, just look online. If |
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you want the magnets, I highly recommend K&J Magnetics.[1] I've done a |
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variety of fun craft projects with them.[2] :) |
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[1] http://www.kjmagnetics.com/Default.asp |
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[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/28208534@N07/sets/72157620071707617/ |
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